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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Why I Write.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Yank Mags focus on what?
(a) Fashion.
(b) Exploring.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Quests.

2. Where is Marrakech?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) Korea.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Tahiti.

3. Orwell questions whether Gandhi truly understood the nature of what?
(a) Monarchies.
(b) Totalitarianism.
(c) Colonialism.
(d) Dictatorships.

4. Orwell says that no book is entirely free from what?
(a) Political bias.
(b) Individual history.
(c) Personal influences.
(d) Comic relief.

5. Why does Orwell shoot the elephant?
(a) It ran at him.
(b) Peer pressure.
(c) It was clearly wild.
(d) He was in danger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Totalitarian Russia is associated with what type of political beliefs?

2. Who does Orwell send to get an elephant rifle before he goes looking for the elephant?

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

4. Orwell regrets that there are no ____________ boys' weeklies.

5. When was Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" published?

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