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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did each of the permanent lodgers get for their ten shillings a week rent?
(a) A couch in a living area, a shared bath, and one meal a day.
(b) A bed in the attic and meals that were mostly bread and butter.
(c) A bedroom, a shared bath, and two meals a day.
(d) An attic room, a toilet, and one meal a day.

2. Who were the fillers?
(a) The men moving coal on the elevators.
(b) The foremen.
(c) The men digging coal from the ground.
(d) The men shoveling coal onto the conveyer belt.

3. In what position must the fillers work?
(a) Sitting.
(b) On their knees.
(c) Slouching over.
(d) Standing up.

4. What was the average distance between the pit bottom to the coal face?
(a) Seven hundred feet.
(b) Sixty yards.
(c) A mile.
(d) Two miles.

5. For what did the Brookers purchase insurance policies?
(a) They insured their children.
(b) They insured each other.
(c) They insured their home and shop.
(d) They insured the lives of both old age pensioners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which towns did Orwell note for their approach to tearing down slum housing and rebuilding?

2. What were newspaper canvassers?

3. What was offered a very few of the miners in the better built mines?

4. Why did men chew tobacco in the mines?

5. What is a cage?

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