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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 could happen to cause a miner to lose one or two days pay?
2. How does a miner bathe after dinner?
3. Which towns did Orwell note for their approach to tearing down slum housing and rebuilding?
4. To what did Orwell compare the sound of the conveyor belt in the mine?
5. Why did Orwell believe the return trip through the tunnels was worse than the initial one?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did a miner clean up upon returning home? Why was cleaning up after work such a difficult task?
2. 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?
3. How did Orwell describe the housing in the industrial towns of England? When were most of the houses built?
4. Why did Orwell leave the Brookers? Where did he go? How did he respond to his train trip leaving town?
5. Why did Orwell believe that our civilization is founded on coal? How did he relate this belief to the coal miner?
6. What were the coal mines like for Orwell? How did he see the men who mined the coal?
7. What were the three terms Orwell used to describe the construction of the substandard housing in Wigan and Sheffield? How are they each affected by the lavatories available to them?
8. What were the newer government (Corporation) houses like? What were the positive and negative aspects of the housing?
9. Describe the typical coal mine Orwell explored while studying the work conditions in the mines.
10. What were the two largest causes of death to a miner on the job? What were the causes of these hazards?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Orwell explained that in England there is a natural rivalry between the northern part of the country and the southern. One expression Orwell used was the Northern Cult. The Northern Cult was a particular way of thinking about England and Orwell found it to be important when learning about class values. What was the Northern Cult? What were the roots of this expression? Why was this an important part of class distinction over the years? What were the qualities associated with the Northern Cult?
Essay Topic 2
In the northern, industrialized parts of England, coal was a prime commodity. What role did Orwell see coal playing in the industrialized world? How did this compare with miners' wages? On what did he blame the inequities he witnessed? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
Orwell described in detail the house in which he stayed with the Brookers, and the houses he visited and reported on for his book. Discuss the housing conditions in Wigan, Sheffield and other towns in northern England in the 1930's. Why were things so deplorable? Who did Orwell believe was responsible for the living conditions of the working and unemployed poor?
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