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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does "back to back" mean?
2. What were newspaper canvassers?
3. What did Orwell learn had happened to Wigan Pier?
4. How did one member of the press see Orwell's presence in Wigan?
5. How did the Brookers view the two old age pensioners that lived in their house?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Orwell believe that our civilization is founded on coal? How did he relate this belief to the coal miner?
2. Why did Orwell leave the Brookers? Where did he go? How did he respond to his train trip leaving town?
3. How did Orwell come to write "The Road to Wigan Pier?" When did he write the book? For whom? What were the three parts of the book when it was originally published?
4. Describe the meals Orwell was offered while living at the Brookers. Who cooked the meals? What were the boarders given to eat for dinner?
5. Describe the elevator that took Orwell and the miners down to the tunnels.
6. What was one major convenience added to the more modern mines in England? What myth often told about miners did this modern convenience dispel?
7. Why were the fillers an important part of the coal mining business? What were their jobs?
8. How did Orwell describe the housing in the industrial towns of England? When were most of the houses built?
9. What were the newer government (Corporation) houses like? What were the positive and negative aspects of the housing?
10. Why did Orwell make the comparison between the miner's wages and the amount of coal and money the coal mines produce? What did he want the reader to understand?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Orwell spent five years in Burma as a member of the Imperial Police. Discuss how this experience affected his life, his politics and his belief system.
Essay Topic 2
Orwell described the working class man and said "he does not act. He is acted upon." Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not? Use examples from the reading.
Essay Topic 3
In the first chapter, Orwell described the meals provided by the Brookers to their lodgers. These meals were non-nutritious and in no way sated a man's hunger. How is this nutritional issue symbolic of other themes in his book, such as the poor and the country's need for Socialism?
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