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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were newspaper canvassers?
(a) They were door-to-door salesmen selling newspaper subscriptions.
(b) They were door-to-door pollsters for the political candidate.
(c) They were door-to-door advertisement salesmen.
(d) They were door-to-door surveyers for the census.

2. Who was Emmie?
(a) The maid hired to come in weekly.
(b) The neighbor who complained bitterly about the Brookers.
(c) Orwell's sister.
(d) The fiance of a son living in London.

3. Who was Old Jack?
(a) An ex-shopkeeper, around 80, who retired and sold his shop.
(b) An ex-miner, 80 years old, whose left hand had been severed in a mining accident.
(c) An ex-soldier, 75 years old, whose legs were both amputated after a battle.
(d) An ex-miner, 78 years old, who worked for over fifty years in the coal pits.

4. According to Mrs. Brooker, who was "at Canada?"
(a) Many of her former boarders.
(b) Many of her aunts and uncles.
(c) Many of her children.
(d) Many of her husband's relatives.

5. To what man did Orwell compare the coal miner?
(a) To the machine driver.
(b) To the banker.
(c) To the oil man.
(d) To the plowman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical attributes did the fillers share?

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

3. How did the Brookers view the two old age pensioners that lived in their house?

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

5. What was the major difference between a mile above ground and a mile in the pit bottom?

(see the answer key)

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