The Following Is an Excerpt from George Orwell's the Road

question 12

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The following is an excerpt from George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier, a study of conditions in northern England (Evaluating the Evidence 26.3) : "[The poor and the unemployed] don't necessarily lower their standards by cutting out luxuries and concentrating on necessities; more often it is the other way about-the more natural way, if you come to think of it. Hence the fact that in a decade of unparalleled depression, the consumption of all cheap luxuries has increased. The two things that have probably made the greatest difference of all are the movies and the mass-production of cheap smart clothes since the war. The youth who leaves school at fourteen and gets a blind-alley job is out of work at twenty, probably for life; but for two pounds ten on the hire-purchase system he can buy himself a suit which, for a little while and at a little distance, looks as though it had been tailored in Savile Row."
According to Orwell, the depression led to

• A)a return to traditional values and pastimes.
• B)the intensification of working-class militancy.
• C)an increase in the consumption of cheap luxury items.
• D)the adoption of an austere lifestyle by the poor.

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