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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How was the coal miner getter paid?
(a) By the week.
(b) By the coalcar load.
(c) By the hour.
(d) By the ton extracted from the mine.

3. In what positions did Orwell find himself moving through the tunnels in the coal mine?
(a) Bent over, crawling and twisting.
(b) Standing, crawling and moving on his belly.
(c) Bent over, squatting and running.
(d) Bent over, squatting and crawling.

4. When a miner comes up from the pit, why does he appear to be pale?
(a) Because he is thirsty.
(b) Because of the foul air he has been breathing.
(c) Because he is exhausted.
(d) Because he has not been in the sun.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one superstition miner sometimes hold to?

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

3. What is the first thing a miner does when he comes up from the mine?

4. When they had something to eat, what did the fillers consume?

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

(see the answer key)

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