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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 Orwell find to be the determining factor in the way housekeeping was done?
(a) The number of children.
(b) The proximity of the landlord.
(c) The lack of a grandmother in the house.
(d) The number of adults in one room.

2. How did one member of the press see Orwell's presence in Wigan?
(a) Orwell did not understand the suffering of the poor.
(b) Orwell was there to snoop into poor people's lives.
(c) Orwell was there to vilify humanity.
(d) Orwell was a fascist.

3. What were "caravan dwellings?"
(a) Housing set up for criminals.
(b) Traveling circus employees' tent cities.
(c) Trailers for the government workers in the city.
(d) Trailers that were brought in after the war for housing.

4. What did Orwell find hopeful about the unemployed men he met?
(a) They relied on each other for food and money.
(b) They could talk about their experiences and learn from them.
(c) They had not gone to pieces spiritually.
(d) They continued to exerecise in case work should come available in the mines.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what did the Brookers purchase insurance policies?

2. What did each of the permanent lodgers get for their ten shillings a week rent?

3. How far under the ground was Orwell when he reached the bottom of the mine?

4. What did the Socialists think of the occupational centers?

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

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