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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did one member of the press see Orwell's presence in Wigan?
(a) Orwell was there to snoop into poor people's lives.
(b) Orwell was there to vilify humanity.
(c) Orwell did not understand the suffering of the poor.
(d) Orwell was a fascist.

4. What does "back to back" mean?
(a) Two houses separated by a brick wall.
(b) Two houses built as one, one upstairs, one downstairs.
(c) Two houses built as one, front house faces the street, back house faces the alley.
(d) Two houses combined to make one large house.

5. How many tons of coal were moved on the conveyor belt every minute?
(a) Several tons.
(b) One ton.
(c) Hundreds of pounds.
(d) Millions of pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the fillers wear?

2. For what did the Brookers purchase insurance policies?

3. How was the coal miner getter paid?

4. What is a snap can?

5. What is a "dataller?"

(see the answer key)

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