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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is left when a slag heap sinks into the ground?
(a) Dry land and weeds.
(b) Soggy ground and bamboo.
(c) Ugly brown grass and soggy ground.
(d) A small hill of dirt.

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

3. How was the coal miner getter paid?
(a) By the coalcar load.
(b) By the week.
(c) By the ton extracted from the mine.
(d) By the hour.

4. Who did Orwell believe was doing the best work for the unemployed in the thirties?
(a) The National Center for Employment Benefits.
(b) The National Communist Party.
(c) The National Unemployed Workers' Union.
(d) The National Employment Readiness Centers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a "gob fire?"

3. What did Orwell find hopeful about the unemployed men he met?

4. To what did Orwell compare the sound of the conveyor belt in the mine?

5. What was one common characteristic of all of the houses Orwell saw in industrial towns?

(see the answer key)

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