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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the most understandable cause of accidents in a mine?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Exhaustion.
(c) Collapsing roofs.
(d) Gas explosions.

2. What is "traveling?"
(a) Getting to and from the mine from the miner's home.
(b) The unpaid time it takes to crawl through the tunnels to the job site.
(c) The unpaid time it takes to get from the job site to the eating area.
(d) Going up and down in the elevator.

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

4. To what did Orwell compare the sound of the conveyor belt in the mine?
(a) An echo.
(b) A loud hum.
(c) A machine gun.
(d) Thunder.

5. What did the fillers wear?
(a) Thin drawers, clogs and knee pads.
(b) Long cotton pants and clogs.
(c) Shorts, light tee shirts and clogs.
(d) Shorts, light tee shirts and knee pads.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a cage?

2. Why did men chew tobacco in the mines?

3. What was the only quality associated with hell that was not in the coal mine?

4. For what did the Brookers purchase insurance policies?

5. At what time of year does the coal industry slack off?

(see the answer key)

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