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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, 11, and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Orwell call "the best example of bourgeois-baiting literature?"
(a) Mirsky's "Intelligentsia of Great Britain."
(b) Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano."
(c) Shaw's "Major Barbara."
(d) Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."

2. Where did Orwell go before he turned twenty?
(a) Burma.
(b) Belfast.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) Sudan.

3. Who wrote "Erewhon?"
(a) Samuel Butler.
(b) Jonathan Swift.
(c) Jacob Dylan.
(d) George Bernard Shaw.

4. When they had something to eat, what did the fillers consume?
(a) A large sandwich and pickles, and a bottle of cold tea.
(b) A large pan of hot cereal and a bottle of cold tea.
(c) A hunk of bread and drippings, and a bottle of cold tea.
(d) A hunk of meat and gravy, and a bottle of cold tea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Corporation cleaned out the slums and moved its occupants, where did it build housing for them?

2. What were the "Clothing Clubs?"

3. What physical attributes did the fillers share?

4. What were some of the misconceptions Orwell noted about Socialists in 1930's England?

5. What is nystagmus?

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