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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were the industrial towns in England so ugly and noxious?
(a) The modern methods of steel construction and smoke abatement were unknown.
(b) The people were so poor they threw trash in the streets and did not paint their houses.
(c) The mayors did not enforce local laws of trash and smoke abatement.
(d) The government had given up helping this area of the country to deal with their filth.

2. When Orwell said he was "advocatus diaboli" what did he mean?
(a) He knew the devil was in the details of the propaganda campaigns.
(b) He was certain the devil was keeping the masses away from Socialism.
(c) He did not really believe in Socialism.
(d) He was being the devil's advocate for the sake of argument.

3. Who was John Galsworthy?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A revolutionary.
(c) A playwright.
(d) A poet.

4. What was the most obvious sign of malnourishment in the families of the unemployed men?
(a) Bad eyesight.
(b) Bad teeth.
(c) Bad hearing.
(d) Bad speech.

5. What did Orwell find amazing about the unemployed men he met after returning from Burma?
(a) That they were well fed and well clothed.
(b) That they were angry and bitter people.
(c) That they were ashamed of being unemployed.
(d) That they were shiftless and uneducated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one superstition miner sometimes hold to?

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

3. What did Orwell say was the primary preoccupation of a single unemployed man in winter?

4. What were the first sounds Orwell heard in the morning when he woke at the Brookers?

5. How many people shared the bedroom in which Orwell slept at the Brookers?

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