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

2. How did D. H. Lawrence come to Orwell's mind as he rode the train?
(a) He looked at a beautiful girl.
(b) He met a passenger whose name was Lawrence.
(c) He was reading a book of poetry.
(d) He looked out over snow-covered hills.

3. In a year, how many minors are killed at work?
(a) One in twenty.
(b) One in nine hundred.
(c) One in one hundred.
(d) One in ten thousand.

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

5. When a miner comes up from the pit, why does he appear to be pale?
(a) Because he is exhausted.
(b) Because he is thirsty.
(c) Because of the foul air he has been breathing.
(d) Because he has not been in the sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the major difference between a mile above ground and a mile in the pit bottom?

2. When they had something to eat, what did the fillers consume?

3. How did Orwell describe Mr. Brooker?

4. What were the first sounds Orwell heard in the morning when he woke at the Brookers?

5. What author accused miners of gluttony?

(see the answer key)

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