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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were newspaper canvassers?
(a) They were door-to-door surveyers for the census.
(b) They were door-to-door salesmen selling newspaper subscriptions.
(c) They were door-to-door pollsters for the political candidate.
(d) They were door-to-door advertisement salesmen.

2. What did each of the permanent lodgers get for their ten shillings a week rent?
(a) An attic room, a toilet, and one meal a day.
(b) A couch in a living area, a shared bath, and one meal a day.
(c) A bedroom, a shared bath, and two meals a day.
(d) A bed in the attic and meals that were mostly bread and butter.

3. What was one way the middle class worked to abolish class distinctions?
(a) Attend summer schools with the proletariats.
(b) Walk to the coal mines together.
(c) Stand side by side in protest rallies.
(d) Give a coal miner a new home.

4. How many people shared the bedroom in which Orwell slept at the Brookers?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Orwell say the fillers looked like?

2. Why does every miner have a blue scar on his nose and forehead?

3. What did Orwell call "the best example of bourgeois-baiting literature?"

4. How long were the fillers on the job during their shifts?

5. Where was Orwell's bed in his room at the Brooker's house?

(see the answer key)

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