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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. Why does every miner have a blue scar on his nose and forehead?
(a) The blue is a bruise.
(b) Every miner hits his nose and forehead sometimes.
(c) Coal dust reacts with the nasal passages.
(d) Coal dust enters the wound and the skin grows over it.

2. What did many of the old timers believe about miners washing their legs?
(a) Washing is bad luck.
(b) Washing causes lumbago.
(c) Washing causes ulcers.
(d) Washing is for women only.

3. What did Orwell believe every unemployed man should be given if he wanted it?
(a) A patch of land and tools with which to grow his own food.
(b) A patch of land and a cow.
(c) A patch of land and a horse drawn wagon.
(d) A patch of land and one hundred pounds.

4. What author accused miners of gluttony?
(a) Rev. W. R. Inge.
(b) Rev. B.W. Smith.
(c) Rev. W.D. Acres.
(d) Rev. W. S. Bellows.

5. What was the only quality associated with hell that was not in the coal mine?
(a) Noise.
(b) Fire.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Foul air.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is left when a slag heap sinks into the ground?

2. Who did Orwell go to hear speak while he was in Sheffield?

3. What did Mr. Brooker do while grumbling that it was "women's work?"

4. How was unemployment viewed by people in the late twenties and early thirties in England?

5. How was the coal miner getter paid?

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