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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What common feeling was shared by all of the different factions of the middle class in England?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Confusion.

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

4. What did Orwell believe was the deeper implications of Socialism?
(a) Socialism stands for democracy and common goals.
(b) Socialism stands for better wages and better working conditions.
(c) Socialism stands for justice and common decency.
(d) Socialism stands for better housing for the working poor.

5. When asked who the top ten greatest men living in 1920, who was most often named in Orwell's school class?
(a) Lennon.
(b) Lenin.
(c) Hardy.
(d) Trotsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What class did Orwell say he was born into?

2. Why did Orwell reference "Punch" in his discussion of class?

3. In Orwell's opinion, what was one way the working class man differed from the middle class man?

4. What were the occupational centers of the thirties?

5. What did Orwell envision a home in the future?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Orwell identify as the two methodologies for abolishing the class system in England? Why did he believe neither of these two to be viable?

2. What were the attributes of the Northern snobbishness Orwell writes about?

3. What were some of the benefits available to unemployed workers in Wigan and Sheffield? How long did benefits last? How long could someone remain unemployed before running out of benefits?

4. What did Orwell do in order to learn more about the working class conditions he had previously not understood? How did he go about trying to be a part of the working class and see the world through their eyes?

5. How did Orwell's time in the military police effect his thinking about government and oppression?

6. Where did Orwell go to live for five years when he was twenty? What were the difference in class distinctions he observed there?

7. How did Orwell argue against the common misconception that the poor and unemployed are simply lazy?

8. What was the unemployment situation in England in the 1930's? How did Orwell's figures differ from official government figures?

9. What was the employment situation in Wigan and Sheffield, the two towns Orwell wrote about?

10. How did Orwell see the clash between the Socialist idea of the machine state and the working people Socialism wished to bring into the fold?

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