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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did most of the cooking and laundry at the Brooker house?
(a) Mrs. Brooker's daughter-in-law and future daughter-in-law.
(b) A neighbor hired by Mrs. Brooker.
(c) Mrs. Brooker's son and his wife and kids.
(d) Mr. Brooker's sister.

3. Who were the fillers?
(a) The men moving coal on the elevators.
(b) The foremen.
(c) The men shoveling coal onto the conveyer belt.
(d) The men digging coal from the ground.

4. What is a "dataller?"
(a) The superviser in the mine shaft.
(b) A miner who attends to the roof of the mine.
(c) A miner who plants explosives.
(d) A miner who digs the coal.

5. What were "cream crackers?"
(a) Biscuits.
(b) Oreos.
(c) Fried bread.
(d) Potato chips.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "traveling?"

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

3. What is the cause of the great majority of accidents in the mine?

4. What was the most understandable cause of accidents in a mine?

5. How did Orwell come to understand the discrepancies in pay for miners?

(see the answer key)

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