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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the fillers wear?
(a) Shorts, light tee shirts and knee pads.
(b) Shorts, light tee shirts and clogs.
(c) Thin drawers, clogs and knee pads.
(d) Long cotton pants and clogs.

2. What is one superstition miner sometimes hold to?
(a) It is bad luck to see a woman before going to work in the morning shift.
(b) It is bad luck to wear red into the mines.
(c) It is bad luck to carry a photograph of one's children into the mines.
(d) It is bad luck to kiss a woman goodbye before going into the mines.

3. What kind of shop was attached to the Brooker's boarding house?
(a) A smoke shop.
(b) A women's dress shop.
(c) A tripe shop.
(d) A small grocery.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In a year, how many minors are killed at work?

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

3. In what position must the fillers work?

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

5. Upon what did Orwell believe our civilization is based?

(see the answer key)

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