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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, 11, and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Orwell believe every unemployed man should be given if he wanted it?
(a) A patch of land and a cow.
(b) A patch of land and a horse drawn wagon.
(c) A patch of land and tools with which to grow his own food.
(d) A patch of land and one hundred pounds.

2. What did Mr. Brooker do while grumbling that it was "women's work?"
(a) Peel potatoes and clean house.
(b) Shop for groceries and mend curtains.
(c) Watch the television in the middle of the day.
(d) Clean the bathrooms and cook oatmeal for dinner.

3. What did Orwell call "the best example of bourgeois-baiting literature?"
(a) Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano."
(b) Mirsky's "Intelligentsia of Great Britain."
(c) Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
(d) Shaw's "Major Barbara."

4. How did unemployment affect the life of the married man?
(a) Unemployment encouraged men to do housework.
(b) Unemployment drove men to drink.
(c) Unemployment raised the crime rate.
(d) Unemployment did not make much difference in the home.

5. What did Orwell think would remind him that our age was not been a bad one to live in?
(a) The memory of trees and playgrounds.
(b) The memory of slag heaps and coal mines.
(c) The memory of working class heroes and their stories.
(d) The memory of working class homes and their families.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Orwell react to the train moving into the countryside?

2. What was offered a very few of the miners in the better built mines?

3. What does "one up, one down" mean?

4. How did the Brookers view the two old age pensioners that lived in their house?

5. What did Orwell say the fillers looked like?

(see the answer key)

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