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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 say was the last question to be asked about class differences?
(a) Is there anyone who cares about it?
(b) Can anything be done about it?
(c) Should the government be overthrown?
(d) Should Fascism be outlawed?

2. How was unemployment viewed by people in the late twenties and early thirties in England?
(a) As something that happened to you and for which you were to blame.
(b) As something that you had coming to you for being so lazy.
(c) As something that happened because you did poorly at your job.
(d) As something that happened to you and from which you could escape.

3. What is "traveling?"
(a) The unpaid time it takes to get from the job site to the eating area.
(b) The unpaid time it takes to crawl through the tunnels to the job site.
(c) Going up and down in the elevator.
(d) Getting to and from the mine from the miner's home.

4. At what point did Orwell leave the Brooker's boarding house?
(a) When all of his belongings were stolen.
(b) When he found there was a full chamber pot under the breakfast table.
(c) When he had enough of the other men sharing his room.
(d) When his wallet was stolen.

5. What did Orwell say was the primary preoccupation of a single unemployed man in winter?
(a) Finding food.
(b) Keeping warm.
(c) Begging for money.
(d) Finding work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mr. Brooker do while grumbling that it was "women's work?"

2. What was one commodity that was less expensive in industrialized parts of England than the rest of the country?

3. What did "The Sleeper Awakes" and "Brave New World" have in common in Orwell's opinion?

4. When asked who the top ten greatest men living in 1920, who was most often named in Orwell's school class?

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

(see the answer key)

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