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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Orwell think was the "ugliest town in the Old World?"
(a) Snelling.
(b) Wigan.
(c) Manchester.
(d) Sheffield.

2. What was "scrambling for the coal?"
(a) Poor men hijacking train cars and shoveling through them for coins.
(b) Poor men fighting each other for lumps of coal in the slag.
(c) Poor men shoveling through the slag from the mines and passing the coal to their wives.
(d) Poor men running up the slag piles, digging out coal and putting it in their poclets.

3. What was one commodity that was less expensive in industrialized parts of England than the rest of the country?
(a) Telephones.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Cable.
(d) Fuel.

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

5. Which towns did Orwell note for their approach to tearing down slum housing and rebuilding?
(a) Liverpool and Sheffield.
(b) Liverpool and Yorkshire.
(c) Liverpool and London.
(d) Liverpool and Manchester.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did men chew tobacco in the mines?

2. What were newspaper canvassers?

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

4. How was unemployment viewed by people in the late twenties and early thirties in England?

5. What is a "gob fire?"

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