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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 were the "Clothing Clubs?"
(a) Clubs in industrial towns in which unemployed men could buy new clothes.
(b) Clubs in industrial towns in which unemployed men could send their wives for clothes.
(c) Clubs in industrial towns in which unemployed men could trade old clothing for new.
(d) Clubs in industrial towns in which unemployed men were given loans for clothing.

2. 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.

3. How did Orwell describe a slag heap?
(a) "A hideous thing, planless and functionless."
(b) "A horrid blight on the landscape."
(c) "A testiment to man's toil."
(d) "A thing of beauty rising in the distance."

4. In order to calculate the actual number of people living on unemployment in England, what would one need to do?
(a) Multiply the official figure by 2.5.
(b) Divide the figure by more than five.
(c) Multiply the official figures by over three.
(d) Multiply the official figure by 4.5.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what, according to Orwell, is socialism inextricably connected?

2. What did Orwell say was the distinguishing mark of the upper-middle class before the war in England?

3. What four words did Orwell discuss in detail as the reason for class distinctions?

4. Why were the industrial towns in England so ugly and noxious?

5. Where did Orwell first go to sleep with the beggars and criminals of the working class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What one overarching generalization was Orwell taught about the lower classes of people in his town? What author did Orwell quote in support of this theory, and what did the author say?

2. Describe the slag heaps found in northern England. What did they look like? What were they eventually used for in Wigan?

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

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

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

6. What were the reasons Orwell cited for Socialism being intrinsically tied to machine industrialization?

7. Why did Orwell think Socialism was not on the rise in England? What did he think Socialists were doing to discourage people from participating?

8. Why did Orwell think the working class people were rarely pure Socialists?

9. Orwell described the view from a street in Sheffield. Describe what he saw when he looked around the town.

10. What was "scrambling for the coal?"

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