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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 is the first thing a miner does when he comes up from the mine?
2. What point was Orwell making in his explanation of the coal miner's pay?
3. What did Old Jack say every night when he went to bed?
4. How did Orwell come to understand the discrepancies in pay for miners?
5. What did Orwell learn had happened to Wigan Pier?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the caravan dwellings Orwell speaks about in his book? How many were there in Wigan? What were the living conditions in these caravan dwelling?
2. How did a miner clean up upon returning home? Why was cleaning up after work such a difficult task?
3. 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?
4. Who were the Brookers? How did Orwell describe them? What did they look like? Behave like?
5. What were some of the reasons Orwell gave for a miner's pay being much lower than his publicized wage?
6. Describe the meals Orwell was offered while living at the Brookers. Who cooked the meals? What were the boarders given to eat for dinner?
7. What was one major convenience added to the more modern mines in England? What myth often told about miners did this modern convenience dispel?
8. Orwell stated that the Brookers were typical of most people in the modern world. What characteristics did he point out as typical?
9. Why did Orwell believe that our civilization is founded on coal? How did he relate this belief to the coal miner?
10. Describe the typical coal mine Orwell explored while studying the work conditions in the mines.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Orwell used his childhood and upbringing as an example of social class, class prejudices and class values. Discuss the differences Orwell saw between the bourgeois, the lower-middle class and the working class in England in the 1930's. Why was this distinction between the classes important to Orwell in his discussion of Socialism?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
In the mines, there were men responsible for extracting the coal from the walls of the mines. Who were these men? Describe their jobs and working conditions. Why were they important to the coal mining process? How did Orwell learn about these men and their role in the extraction of coal?
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