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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. How was the Socialist world seen when Orwell wrote this book?
(a) Mechanized, organized and independent.
(b) Worker-run, proletariat based and non-classist.
(c) Mechanized, efficient and organized.
(d) Wealthy, organic and organized.

2. In a year, how many minors are killed at work?
(a) One in nine hundred.
(b) One in one hundred.
(c) One in twenty.
(d) One in ten thousand.

3. What was "scrambling for the coal?"
(a) Poor men running up the slag piles, digging out coal and putting it in their poclets.
(b) Poor men hijacking train cars and shoveling through them for coins.
(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.

4. How did Orwell react to the train moving into the countryside?
(a) He was happy to be seeing his family again.
(b) He was happy to be out of the dark and dirty city.
(c) He was sad to be leaving his home.
(d) He was confused as to where the train was headed.

5. To what did Orwell compare a "shabby-genteel family" in England?
(a) The same as a family of immigrants in the United States.
(b) The same as a "negro" family living in Manchester.
(c) The same as a family of poor whites living in an all "negro" area.
(d) The same as a family of poor farmers in Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far under the ground was Orwell when he reached the bottom of the mine?

2. What physical attributes did the fillers share?

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

4. How did Orwell describe a slag heap?

5. In one town, what was built instead of public housing the town desperately needed?

(see the answer key)

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