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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Orwell describe the meals at the Brooker's house?
(a) "Abjectly woeful."
(b) "Uniformly pitiful."
(c) "Pitifully disgusting."
(d) "Uniformly disgusting."

2. How did Orwell react to the train moving into the countryside?
(a) He was confused as to where the train was headed.
(b) He was sad to be leaving his home.
(c) He was happy to be out of the dark and dirty city.
(d) He was happy to be seeing his family again.

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

4. What is "traveling?"
(a) Going up and down in the elevator.
(b) The unpaid time it takes to get from the job site to the eating area.
(c) The unpaid time it takes to crawl through the tunnels to the job site.
(d) Getting to and from the mine from the miner's home.

5. In a year, how many minors are killed at work?
(a) One in ten thousand.
(b) One in nine hundred.
(c) One in twenty.
(d) One in one hundred.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were newspaper canvassers?

3. What was done with the unusable shale inside of the mines?

4. Why did Orwell believe the return trip through the tunnels was worse than the initial one?

5. What was one "perk" given to miners that was actually off-set by transportation costs?

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