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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the fillers wear?
(a) Shorts, light tee shirts and clogs.
(b) Long cotton pants and clogs.
(c) Shorts, light tee shirts and knee pads.
(d) Thin drawers, clogs and knee pads.

2. What did each of the permanent lodgers get for their ten shillings a week rent?
(a) A couch in a living area, a shared bath, and one meal a day.
(b) A bedroom, a shared bath, and two meals a day.
(c) An attic room, a toilet, and one meal a day.
(d) A bed in the attic and meals that were mostly bread and butter.

3. How was the coal miner getter paid?
(a) By the ton extracted from the mine.
(b) By the week.
(c) By the hour.
(d) By the coalcar load.

4. What kind of shop was attached to the Brooker's boarding house?
(a) A small grocery.
(b) A women's dress shop.
(c) A tripe shop.
(d) A smoke shop.

5. When the Corporation cleaned out the slums and moved its occupants, where did it build housing for them?
(a) Below ground.
(b) In the center of town.
(c) Far away from the tenants' employment.
(d) On top of pre-existing housing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Orwell say he was received by the people he spoke with about their housing?

2. What is a "dataller?"

3. What was done with the unusable shale inside of the mines?

4. How did Orwell describe Mr. Brooker?

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

(see the answer key)

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