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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 Orwell say he was received by the people he spoke with about their housing?
(a) With curiosity and suspicion.
(b) With kindness and good food.
(c) With hostility and suspicion.
(d) With courtesy and good nature.

2. What did each of the permanent lodgers get for their ten shillings a week rent?
(a) A bed in the attic and meals that were mostly bread and butter.
(b) A couch in a living area, a shared bath, and one meal a day.
(c) An attic room, a toilet, and one meal a day.
(d) A bedroom, a shared bath, and two meals a day.

3. What other types of expenses were taken from the miner's pay?
(a) Insurance, uniform rental, hospital fees.
(b) Insurance, lamp rental, union fees.
(c) Uniform rental, tools, union fees.
(d) Hospital fees, tools, uniform rental.

4. To what did Orwell compare the sound of the conveyor belt in the mine?
(a) Thunder.
(b) An echo.
(c) A loud hum.
(d) A machine gun.

5. What was one common characteristic of all of the houses Orwell saw in industrial towns?
(a) None of them were less than two bedrooms.
(b) None of them had running hot water.
(c) None of them were high rent.
(d) None of them were brick.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what point did Orwell leave the Brooker's boarding house?

3. What were "cream crackers?"

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

5. How far under the ground was Orwell when he reached the bottom of the mine?

(see the answer key)

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