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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Brookers view the two old age pensioners that lived in their house?
(a) They thought of them as a danger because they smoked in bed.
(b) They did not think of them at all as long as they paid their rent.
(c) They thought of them as two old, quiet men bothering no one.
(d) They thought of them as dreadful parasites living on their charity.

2. Who was Old Jack?
(a) An ex-soldier, 75 years old, whose legs were both amputated after a battle.
(b) An ex-shopkeeper, around 80, who retired and sold his shop.
(c) An ex-miner, 80 years old, whose left hand had been severed in a mining accident.
(d) An ex-miner, 78 years old, who worked for over fifty years in the coal pits.

3. What creature did Orwell see a surprising abundance of in the coal mine?
(a) Mice.
(b) Moles.
(c) Rats.
(d) Bats.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Emmie?

2. What is "traveling?"

3. What is one superstition miner sometimes hold to?

4. In what positions did Orwell find himself moving through the tunnels in the coal mine?

5. What did Orwell learn had happened to Wigan Pier?

(see the answer key)

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