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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What point was Orwell making in his explanation of the coal miner's pay?
(a) They are actually paid very little.
(b) They are actually well paid.
(c) They are paid more than the mayor of the town.
(d) They are paid the same as any other laborer.

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

4. What did Orwell think was the "ugliest town in the Old World?"
(a) Sheffield.
(b) Wigan.
(c) Snelling.
(d) Manchester.

5. What is nystagmus?
(a) A nose disease.
(b) An eye disease.
(c) A lung disease.
(d) A heart disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "dataller?"

2. What was the major difference between a mile above ground and a mile in the pit bottom?

3. According to Mrs. Brooker, who was "at Canada?"

4. Who did Orwell depict as the enemy to social change in England?

5. How did Orwell describe Fascism?

(see the answer key)

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