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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 did the Socialists think of the occupational centers?
(a) They believed the centers were brainwashing men.
(b) They believed the centers were there to keep the unemployed quiet and hopeful.
(c) They believed the centers should do more training.
(d) They believed the centers were run by Marxists.

2. How long were the fillers on the job during their shifts?
(a) Eight hours with half an hour for lunch.
(b) Six hours with no benefits.
(c) Seven hours with two twenty minute breaks.
(d) Seven and a half hours with no break.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only quality associated with hell that was not in the coal mine?

2. How did unemployment affect the life of the married man?

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

4. For what did the Brookers purchase insurance policies?

5. What did Orwell find to be the determining factor in the way housekeeping was done?

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