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

2. What did Orwell say was the primary preoccupation of a single unemployed man in winter?
(a) Keeping warm.
(b) Finding food.
(c) Finding work.
(d) Begging for money.

3. Under the capitalist system, who did Orwell say must live on the edge of starvation so that England can live in comfort?
(a) Thousands of Africans.
(b) A million Burmese.
(c) Ten thousand coal miners.
(d) One hundred million Indians.

4. Who did Orwell believe was doing the best work for the unemployed in the thirties?
(a) The National Communist Party.
(b) The National Employment Readiness Centers.
(c) The National Unemployed Workers' Union.
(d) The National Center for Employment Benefits.

5. Why did Orwell have the opportunity to receive an expensive public school education?
(a) He was at the school as the guest of the Prime Minister.
(b) He was allowed to attend the school free because his father was an alum.
(c) He was sent to school by his wealthy uncle.
(d) He was at the school on a scholarship.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mrs. Brooker, who was "at Canada?"

2. What playwright said that you can only bring a working man on stage "as an object of compassion?"

3. What did Mr. Brooker do while grumbling that it was "women's work?"

4. What is one superstition miner sometimes hold to?

5. Why did Orwell believe it was not possible to have a trade union of middle class workers?

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