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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, 11, and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Orwell call "the best example of bourgeois-baiting literature?"
(a) Mirsky's "Intelligentsia of Great Britain."
(b) Shaw's "Major Barbara."
(c) Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
(d) Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano."

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

3. Who was Comrade X?
(a) A member of the C.P.G.B. and an author.
(b) A member of the A.C.L.U. and a politician.
(c) A member of the R.S.V.P. and a politician.
(d) A member of the N.W.P. and an author.

4. What was one problem faced by the tenant moving from slum housing into new housing?
(a) The noise level.
(b) The lack of medical care.
(c) The outdoor plumbing.
(d) The higher expense.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "blind back?"

2. What is a snap can?

3. With what, according to Orwell, is socialism inextricably connected?

4. When Orwell said he was "advocatus diaboli" what did he mean?

5. To what did Orwell compare a "shabby-genteel family" in England?

(see the answer key)

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