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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. According to Mrs. Brooker, who was "at Canada?"
2. How did Orwell say he was received by the people he spoke with about their housing?
3. How did Orwell describe the meals at the Brooker's house?
4. In what position must the fillers work?
5. What were "caravan dwellings?"
Short Essay Questions
1. Who were the Brookers? How did Orwell describe them? What did they look like? Behave like?
2. Why were the fillers an important part of the coal mining business? What were their jobs?
3. Who were the newspaper canvassers, and what were their jobs?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. How did Orwell describe the housing in the industrial towns of England? When were most of the houses built?
7. When people moved into the Corporation housing, what were some of the restrictions by which they had to abide?
8. What were some of the reasons Orwell gave for a miner's pay being much lower than his publicized wage?
9. Describe the meals Orwell was offered while living at the Brookers. Who cooked the meals? What were the boarders given to eat for dinner?
10. Why did Orwell believe that our civilization is founded on coal? How did he relate this belief to the coal miner?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Orwell spent a good deal of his life promoting Socialism and struggling with the issue of class differences and prejudices. He contended that to abolish class distinction, a person must be willing to abolish part of himself. What did he mean by this?
Essay Topic 2
There is an inherent conflict on Socialism between the advancement of the machine state and industrialization and the working man's job. How did Orwell address this conflict? How did he believe Socialism should address the conflict? Do you believe the two--the machine state and the working man--are by nature at odds with each other? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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