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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the average size of one of the dwellings?
(a) Five feet wide by six feet high.
(b) Ten feet wide by ten feet high.
(c) Twenty feet wide by five feet high.
(d) Ten feet wide by twelve feet high.

2. Upon what did Orwell believe our civilization is based?
(a) Law.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Money.
(d) Coal.

3. How did Orwell describe the meals at the Brooker's house?
(a) "Abjectly woeful."
(b) "Uniformly disgusting."
(c) "Uniformly pitiful."
(d) "Pitifully disgusting."

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

5. In one town, what was built instead of public housing the town desperately needed?
(a) A museum.
(b) A town hall.
(c) A library.
(d) A recreational area.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were newspaper canvassers?

2. What was offered a very few of the miners in the better built mines?

3. Who did most of the cooking and laundry at the Brooker house?

4. What did miners tell Orwell about why they ate less than he did at a meal?

5. What did Orwell urge the reader to realize about the coal miner?

(see the answer key)

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