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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the number of people underfed in England based on Orwell's calculations?
(a) Over ten million.
(b) Under seven million.
(c) Over eleven million.
(d) Over twenty million.

2. Why did Orwell's parents eventually forbid him to play with certain children in the neighborhood?
(a) "Middle class people cannot afford to let their children grow up with vulgar accents."
(b) "Middle class parents cannot allow their children to be seen with blue collar children."
(c) "Middle class parents cannot afford to let their children play until homework was done."
(d) Middle class parents cannot allow their children to play in the street all hours of the day."

3. What is nystagmus?
(a) A nose disease.
(b) An eye disease.
(c) A heart disease.
(d) A lung disease.

4. What did Orwell believe every unemployed man should be given if he wanted it?
(a) A patch of land and tools with which to grow his own food.
(b) A patch of land and a cow.
(c) A patch of land and a horse drawn wagon.
(d) A patch of land and one hundred pounds.

5. What was one "perk" given to miners that was actually off-set by transportation costs?
(a) Reduced cost of the coal for their houses.
(b) Bonus for meeting coal goals.
(c) Free tool sharpening.
(d) Bonus for on-time work.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a miner comes up from the pit, why does he appear to be pale?

2. In order to calculate the actual number of people living on unemployment in England, what would one need to do?

3. What did Orwell say was the primary preoccupation of a single unemployed man in winter?

4. What portion of the population of Wigan was living on unemployment, including family members?

5. Where did Orwell go before he turned twenty?

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