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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What could happen to cause a miner to lose one or two days pay?
(a) A broken elevator.
(b) A new training session.
(c) An over-scheduling mistake.
(d) A machinery breakdown or a fault.

2. What is "traveling?"
(a) Getting to and from the mine from the miner's home.
(b) The unpaid time it takes to crawl through the tunnels to the job site.
(c) The unpaid time it takes to get from the job site to the eating area.
(d) Going up and down in the elevator.

3. How long were the fillers on the job during their shifts?
(a) Seven hours with two twenty minute breaks.
(b) Eight hours with half an hour for lunch.
(c) Six hours with no benefits.
(d) Seven and a half hours with no break.

4. Who wrote "The Coal Scuttle?"
(a) Mr. Paul McCartney, Mayor of Barnsley, Yorkshire.
(b) Mr. Joseph Jones, Mayor of Barnsley, Yorkshire.
(c) Mr. John Abbott, Mayor of Chelsey, Yorkshire.
(d) Mr. Albert Hall, Mayor of Chelsey, Yorkshire.

5. What is "buttons down the back?"
(a) A death story told to novices just entering the mines.
(b) The type of shirt worn to keep dust from getting into clothing.
(c) Permanent scabs on vertebrae from scraping the spine on beams.
(d) A joke miners play on each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing a miner does when he comes up from the mine?

2. How did Orwell describe Mr. Brooker?

3. At what point did Orwell leave the Brooker's boarding house?

4. What is one superstition miner sometimes hold to?

5. What were newspaper canvassers?

(see the answer key)

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