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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of shop was attached to the Brooker's boarding house?
(a) A tripe shop.
(b) A small grocery.
(c) A women's dress shop.
(d) A smoke shop.

2. What is the cause of the great majority of accidents in the mine?
(a) Gob fires.
(b) Human error.
(c) Gas explosions.
(d) Fall of a roof.

3. How did Orwell describe the meals at the Brooker's house?
(a) "Abjectly woeful."
(b) "Uniformly disgusting."
(c) "Pitifully disgusting."
(d) "Uniformly pitiful."

4. How did the Brookers view the two old age pensioners that lived in their house?
(a) They thought of them as a danger because they smoked in bed.
(b) They thought of them as dreadful parasites living on their charity.
(c) They thought of them as two old, quiet men bothering no one.
(d) They did not think of them at all as long as they paid their rent.

5. According to Mrs. Brooker, who was "at Canada?"
(a) Many of her aunts and uncles.
(b) Many of her husband's relatives.
(c) Many of her former boarders.
(d) Many of her children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did men chew tobacco in the mines?

2. To what man did Orwell compare the coal miner?

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

4. What is a "dataller?"

5. What did miners tell Orwell about why they ate less than he did at a meal?

(see the answer key)

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