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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Orwell say the fillers looked like?
(a) Hammered iron statues.
(b) Hammered metal sculpture.
(c) Slaves in Egypt.
(d) Wooden soldiers.

2. How far under the ground was Orwell when he reached the bottom of the mine?
(a) Four hundred yards.
(b) Seven hundred feet.
(c) Four thousand yards.
(d) Four thousand feet.

3. What physical attributes did the fillers share?
(a) They were tall, broad shouldered and thick around the waist.
(b) They were small, broad shouldered and thin.
(c) They were short, slightly overweight and broad shouldered.
(d) They were small, overweight thick thighed men.

4. What is "buttons down the back?"
(a) A death story told to novices just entering the mines.
(b) The type of shirt worn to keep dust from getting into clothing.
(c) Permanent scabs on vertebrae from scraping the spine on beams.
(d) A joke miners play on each other.

5. What was the major difference between a mile above ground and a mile in the pit bottom?
(a) You were not able to hear anything in the pit bottom.
(b) You could not stand upright in the pit bottom.
(c) You could not return the same way.
(d) You could not measure distance in the pit bottom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were "cream crackers?"

3. What is a "gob fire?"

4. Who was Mr. Reilly?

5. How does a miner bathe after dinner?

(see the answer key)

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