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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is "buttons down the back?"
(a) The type of shirt worn to keep dust from getting into clothing.
(b) Permanent scabs on vertebrae from scraping the spine on beams.
(c) A joke miners play on each other.
(d) A death story told to novices just entering the mines.

2. Why did Orwell believe the return trip through the tunnels was worse than the initial one?
(a) Because he was forced to move very quickly.
(b) Because he was alone in the dark.
(c) Because he was going slightly uphill on the return.
(d) Because he was terribly hungry.

3. At what point did Orwell leave the Brooker's boarding house?
(a) When all of his belongings were stolen.
(b) When he had enough of the other men sharing his room.
(c) When his wallet was stolen.
(d) When he found there was a full chamber pot under the breakfast table.

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

5. What did Old Jack say every night when he went to bed?
(a) "Tomorrow's comin'."
(b) "Good night, boys!"
(c) "Sleep warm, then."
(d) "Till the morrow!"

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Orwell react to the train moving into the countryside?

2. How long were the fillers on the job during their shifts?

3. For what did the Brookers purchase insurance policies?

4. How many tons of coal were moved on the conveyor belt every minute?

5. What did each of the permanent lodgers get for their ten shillings a week rent?

(see the answer key)

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