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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. How did a Northerner visiting Southern England see that part of the country?
(a) As snobbish, wealthy and unconcerned.
(b) As snobbish, uneducated and fantastic.
(c) As snobbish, cruel and wealthy.
(d) As snobbish, effeminate and lazy.

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

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

4. What four words did Orwell discuss in detail as the reason for class distinctions?
(a) The upper-middle class cheat.
(b) The lower class smell.
(c) The middle class lie.
(d) The upper class steal.

5. Who was the typical Socialist of the late 1930's in England?
(a) A man.
(b) A member of the middle class.
(c) A member of the lower class.
(d) A woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does every miner have a blue scar on his nose and forehead?

2. What did Orwell envision a home in the future?

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

4. Where did Orwell first go to sleep with the beggars and criminals of the working class?

5. What did Orwell say about the Corporation housing as a whole?

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