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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Orwell envision a home in the future?
(a) Electricity will run all functions in the home.
(b) Glass and steel furniture, no libraries and more children.
(c) Invisible heaters, glass and steel furniture and fewer children.
(d) Forced air heating, larger grocery stores and mechanical doors.

2. In Orwell's opinion, what was one way the working class man differed from the middle class man?
(a) His attitude toward the Pope.
(b) His attitude toward politics.
(c) His attitude toward mining.
(d) His attitude toward family.

3. In 1918, what was the general feeling throughout England?
(a) One of understanding due to the war.
(b) One of conservatism due to the war.
(c) One of uncertainty due to the war.
(d) One of revolutionary thought due to the war.

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

5. Where did Orwell go before he turned twenty?
(a) Washington D.C.
(b) Belfast.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Burma.

6. What did the Socialists think of the occupational centers?
(a) They believed the centers were run by Marxists.
(b) They believed the centers should do more training.
(c) They believed the centers were there to keep the unemployed quiet and hopeful.
(d) They believed the centers were brainwashing men.

7. Why did Orwell say Socialism had not taken hold in England despite its common-sense doctrine?
(a) The wrong propaganda.
(b) The military police.
(c) The poor working conditions at the mines.
(d) The lack of political organization in the pary.

8. With what, according to Orwell, is socialism inextricably connected?
(a) The idea of workers' solidarity.
(b) The idea of machine production.
(c) The idea of better housing and working conditions.
(d) The idea of overthrow of the rich.

9. What did Orwell think was the result of efforts at reducing class distinctions in England?
(a) It mostly brought children together from all classes of society.
(b) It gave people a chance to see how the other half lived.
(c) It was the reason for class warfare.
(d) It simply intensified prejudice.

10. What did Orwell think would remind him that our age was not been a bad one to live in?
(a) The memory of working class homes and their families.
(b) The memory of trees and playgrounds.
(c) The memory of working class heroes and their stories.
(d) The memory of slag heaps and coal mines.

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

12. What playwright said that you can only bring a working man on stage "as an object of compassion?"
(a) Eugene Ionesco.
(b) Eugene O'Neil.
(c) D.H. Lawrence.
(d) George Bernard Shaw.

13. Why did Orwell's parents eventually forbid him to play with certain children in the neighborhood?
(a) Middle class parents cannot allow their children to play in the street all hours of the day."
(b) "Middle class people cannot afford to let their children grow up with vulgar accents."
(c) "Middle class parents cannot allow their children to be seen with blue collar children."
(d) "Middle class parents cannot afford to let their children play until homework was done."

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

15. What was one commodity that was less expensive in industrialized parts of England than the rest of the country?
(a) Telephones.
(b) Fuel.
(c) Cable.
(d) Electricity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What things did Orwell believe a good writer needed that an unemployed man could not find?

2. Who was Comrade X?

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

4. Who was the typical Socialist of the late 1930's in England?

5. What was "the flock mattress?"

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