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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one common characteristic of all of the houses Orwell saw in industrial towns?
(a) None of them had running hot water.
(b) None of them were less than two bedrooms.
(c) None of them were brick.
(d) None of them were high rent.

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

3. 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 added to the coal and processed.
(d) It was brought to the surface and dumped into "dirt-heaps."

4. What were the two kinds of determining social status in 1930's England?
(a) Family history and neighborhood of residence.
(b) Social status and family history.
(c) Social status and economic stratifications.
(d) Pronounciation of words and family money,

5. What did Orwell call the opposition of socialism when twenty million Englishmen were underfed?
(a) Feudal.
(b) Expected.
(c) Suicidal.
(d) Reasonable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of shop was attached to the Brooker's boarding house?

2. Who was Comrade X?

3. To what did Orwell compare a "shabby-genteel family" in England?

4. Who wrote "The Coal Scuttle?"

5. Who was the typical Socialist of the late 1930's in England?

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