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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Mr. Brooker do while grumbling that it was "women's work?"
(a) Shop for groceries and mend curtains.
(b) Peel potatoes and clean house.
(c) Clean the bathrooms and cook oatmeal for dinner.
(d) Watch the television in the middle of the day.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did the tenants of the slum houses believe to be the worst landlords?

3. Who did most of the cooking and laundry at the Brooker house?

4. In one town, what was built instead of public housing the town desperately needed?

5. What is a cage?

(see the answer key)

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