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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Inside the Whale.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Orwell says that bad English is a good vehicle for what kind of speech?
(a) Political.
(b) Moral.
(c) Honest.
(d) Rhetorical.

2. Orwell, although he once found Houseman to be enjoyable, now finds his writings to be what?
(a) Off-color.
(b) Boring.
(c) Quaint.
(d) Ridiculous.

3. The dialogue in Miller's novel is what?
(a) Illiterate.
(b) Strange.
(c) Coarse.
(d) Short.

4. Orwell believes that good English writing demands what?
(a) Editing.
(b) Determination.
(c) Attention.
(d) Work.

5. Miller telld Orwell that his goal of direct participation in the Spanish Civil War was what?
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Stupid.
(c) Moronic.
(d) Idiotic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orwell believes that stringent social conformism means that the greatest writers write what type of works?

2. Kipling provides nearly the only literary description of much of nineteenth-century where?

3. What type of literature does Kipling write?

4. Orwell believes that Kipling's poetry is remembered because of what?

5. When political truth is difficult, meaningless ________ becomes acceptable.

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