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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is left when a slag heap sinks into the ground?
(a) Dry land and weeds.
(b) Ugly brown grass and soggy ground.
(c) Soggy ground and bamboo.
(d) A small hill of dirt.

2. What did Orwell urge the reader to realize about the coal miner?
(a) "Miners have families just like other people."
(b) "Miners are not all stupid people not deserving of an education."
(c) "Miners are people too."
(d) "Because miners sweat their guts out, superior people can remain superior."

3. What did Orwell find amazing about the unemployed men he met after returning from Burma?
(a) That they were ashamed of being unemployed.
(b) That they were angry and bitter people.
(c) That they were well fed and well clothed.
(d) That they were shiftless and uneducated.

4. What were the first sounds Orwell heard in the morning when he woke at the Brookers?
(a) The sound of birds chirping in the trees.
(b) The sound of Mrs. Brooker bustling around the kitchen.
(c) The sound of hammering at the house next door.
(d) The sound of mill girls' clogs down the cobbled street.

5. What was "scrambling for the coal?"
(a) Poor men hijacking train cars and shoveling through them for coins.
(b) Poor men running up the slag piles, digging out coal and putting it in their poclets.
(c) Poor men shoveling through the slag from the mines and passing the coal to their wives.
(d) Poor men fighting each other for lumps of coal in the slag.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one superstition miner sometimes hold to?

3. How did Orwell describe the meals at the Brooker's house?

4. What did Orwell find was the basis of the diet for families of the unemployed?

5. What is a snap can?

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