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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Orwell think was more important than changes in dynasties or changes of religion?
(a) Changes of clothing and cloth.
(b) Changes of the seasons.
(c) Changes of housing materials.
(d) Changes of diet.

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

3. How did Orwell describe the attitude toward education in the working class?
(a) Education was important only to the middle class.
(b) A child could be educated without ever going to school.
(c) A child could not wait to get out of school and go to work to earn money.
(d) A child could not wait to get out of school and move south to Dover.

4. What famous line came from Greenwood's play "Love on the Dole?"
(a) "Oh God, let me die!"
(b) "Oh, God, let me get out of here!"
(c) "Oh God, why have y ou done this to me?"
(d) "Oh God, send me some work!"

5. What book did Orwell write telling of his experiences in London with the unemployed street people?
(a) Down and Out in London.
(b) Down and Out in Paris and London.
(c) Down and Out on the Seine.
(d) Down and Out in the Gutters of London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Orwell call the opposition of socialism when twenty million Englishmen were underfed?

2. Why did Orwell believe it was not possible to have a trade union of middle class workers?

3. Why did Orwell think the upper-middle class were drawn to India, Kenya and Nigeria?

4. What were newspaper canvassers?

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

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