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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 left when a slag heap sinks into the ground?
2. Why did Orwell think the upper-middle class were drawn to India, Kenya and Nigeria?
3. What things did Orwell believe a good writer needed that an unemployed man could not find?
4. What did Orwell find amazing about the unemployed men he met after returning from Burma?
5. Where did Orwell go before he turned twenty?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were some of the negative affects of unemployment on any town despite unemployment benefits?
2. What was the unemployment situation in England in the 1930's? How did Orwell's figures differ from official government figures?
3. How did Orwell explain the attitude toward the family in a working class society? How did it differ in his opinion from the middle class man and his family?
4. Where did Orwell go to live for five years when he was twenty? What were the difference in class distinctions he observed there?
5. Orwell described the view from a street in Sheffield. Describe what he saw when he looked around the town.
6. What was "scrambling for the coal?"
7. What did Orwell identify as the two methodologies for abolishing the class system in England? Why did he believe neither of these two to be viable?
8. What does the statement by Napoleon "an army marches on its stomach" mean in context of life in industrialized England?
9. How did Orwell see the clash between the Socialist idea of the machine state and the working people Socialism wished to bring into the fold?
10. Describe the slag heaps found in northern England. What did they look like? What were they eventually used for in Wigan?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Orwell was an outspoken and literate man in England in the 1930's. Why did Orwell come to write "The Road to Wigan Pier?" Who were the people involved in the book's publication and what was their interest in the project? What was the reaction to his manuscript?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
In his descriptions of unemployment in the middle and working classes, Orwell explained that the men and their families in each class had a vastly different reaction to the condition. Orwell contended that the working class man was better equipped to lose his job and become unemployed than the middle class man. What were some of the reasons Orwell cited for this? Can you find proof in studying the middle and working classes to support Orwell's contention that one class was better equipped than another to be out of work?
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