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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long were the fillers on the job during their shifts?
(a) Seven and a half hours with no break.
(b) Six hours with no benefits.
(c) Eight hours with half an hour for lunch.
(d) Seven hours with two twenty minute breaks.

2. What is a cage?
(a) A steel box in which supplies and personal belongings are kept.
(b) A steel box in which the foreman rides through the caverns.
(c) A steel box in which coal is transported to the surface.
(d) A steel box that is lowered at a fast rate into the caverns of the mine.

3. In what position must the fillers work?
(a) Slouching over.
(b) On their knees.
(c) Standing up.
(d) Sitting.

4. How far under the ground was Orwell when he reached the bottom of the mine?
(a) Four thousand yards.
(b) Four thousand feet.
(c) Seven hundred feet.
(d) Four hundred yards.

5. What author accused miners of gluttony?
(a) Rev. W.D. Acres.
(b) Rev. W. S. Bellows.
(c) Rev. W. R. Inge.
(d) Rev. B.W. Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "The Coal Scuttle?"

2. Who was Old Jack?

3. How does a miner bathe after dinner?

4. What did Orwell say the fillers looked like?

5. How did D. H. Lawrence come to Orwell's mind as he rode the train?

(see the answer key)

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