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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Saintsbury say about unemployment insurance?
2. How did Orwell describe the attitude toward education in the working class?
3. Who was John Galsworthy?
4. What did Orwell envision a home in the future?
5. In Orwell's opinion, what was one way the working class man differed from the middle class man?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the reasons Orwell cited for Socialism being intrinsically tied to machine industrialization?
2. What was the employment situation in Wigan and Sheffield, the two towns Orwell wrote about?
3. What were the attributes of the Northern snobbishness Orwell writes about?
4. What were some of the negative affects of unemployment on any town despite unemployment benefits?
5. Why did Orwell consider Socialism a way out of the social and economic conditions plaguing England in the 1930's? How did he present his argument?
6. What were some of the benefits available to unemployed workers in Wigan and Sheffield? How long did benefits last? How long could someone remain unemployed before running out of benefits?
7. How did Orwell's time in the military police effect his thinking about government and oppression?
8. Where did Orwell go to live for five years when he was twenty? What were the difference in class distinctions he observed there?
9. What did Orwell identify as the two methodologies for abolishing the class system in England? Why did he believe neither of these two to be viable?
10. How did Orwell explain the attitude toward the family in a working class society? How did it differ in his opinion from the middle class man and his family?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Four political ideologies are presented in Orwell's book: Socialism, Capitalism, Fascism and Communism. Compare and contrast the four ideologies. Which are incompatible with each other? Were Orwell not a Socialist, what would he most likely have been committed to and why?
Essay Topic 2
Orwell described the working class man and said "he does not act. He is acted upon." Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not? Use examples from the reading.
Essay Topic 3
Orwell used his childhood and upbringing as an example of social class, class prejudices and class values. Discuss the differences Orwell saw between the bourgeois, the lower-middle class and the working class in England in the 1930's. Why was this distinction between the classes important to Orwell in his discussion of Socialism?
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