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Chapter 2 - Multiple Choice Exercise 2-B
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Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions that follow.

[The scullery, or kitchen, that Orwell refers to in this paragraph was located in a Paris hotel where he worked as a kitchen helper during the early 1920s.]

It was amusing to look round the filthy little scullery and think that only a double door was between us and the dining-room. There sat the customers in all their splendour--spotless table-cloths, bowls of flowers, mirrors and gilt cornices and painted cherubim; and here, just a few feet away, we in our disgusting filth. For it really was disgusting filth. There was no time to sweep the floor till evening, and we slithered about in a compound of soapy water, lettuce-leaves, torn paper and trampled food. A dozen waiters with their coats off, showing their sweaty armpits, sat at the table mixing salads and sticking their thumbs into the cream pots. The room had a dirty, mixed smell of food and sweat. Everywhere in the cupboards, behind the piles of crockery, were squalid stores of food that the waiters had stolen. There were only two sinks, and no washing basin, and it was nothing unusual for a waiter to wash his face in the water in which clean crockery was rinsing. But the customers saw nothing of this. There were a coco-nut mat and a mirror outside the dining-room door, and the waiters used to preen themselves up and go in looking the picture of cleanliness.

--George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

1
The mode of discourse in this paragraph is
A)narration
B)description
C)exposition
D)persuasion
2
The main idea of the paragraph is primarily supported by
A)facts and statistics
B)reasons
C)steps in a process
D)observations and details
3
The dominant impression of the scullery that Orwell intends to convey is
A)disgust
B)skepticism
C)indifference
D)sympathy
4
This was Orwell's first job working in a hotel kitchen.
A)This statement is probably accurate.
B)This statement is probably inaccurate.
5
The dining room patrons would have been shocked to see the wretched and filthy conditions in the scullery.
A)This statement is probably accurate.
B)This statement is probably inaccurate.
6
Working in a scullery such as this one was tiring and demanding.
A)This statement is probably accurate.
B)This statement is probably inaccurate.
7
During the time Orwell is writing about, people were not as concerned about sanitation as we are today.
A)This statement is probably accurate.
B)This statement is probably inaccurate.
8
Waiters stole food because their employer didn't pay them sufficient wages.
A)This statement is probably accurate.
B)This statement is probably inaccurate.







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