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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "dataller?"
(a) A miner who digs the coal.
(b) A miner who attends to the roof of the mine.
(c) The superviser in the mine shaft.
(d) A miner who plants explosives.

2. What was done with the unusable shale inside of the mines?
(a) It was taken away by large trucks and brought to lakes and rivers.
(b) It was left in the mine in empty mine shafts.
(c) It was brought to the surface and dumped into "dirt-heaps."
(d) It was added to the coal and processed.

3. What were newspaper canvassers?
(a) They were door-to-door pollsters for the political candidate.
(b) They were door-to-door advertisement salesmen.
(c) They were door-to-door surveyers for the census.
(d) They were door-to-door salesmen selling newspaper subscriptions.

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

5. Why did men chew tobacco in the mines?
(a) It was a stimulant.
(b) It was a deterrent to thirst.
(c) It was good for headaches.
(d) It was medicinal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Orwell say about the Corporation housing as a whole?

2. What did Old Jack say every night when he went to bed?

3. What was the most understandable cause of accidents in a mine?

4. In one town, what was built instead of public housing the town desperately needed?

5. What is a cage?

(see the answer key)

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