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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 using bad English is what?
(a) Pervasive.
(b) Easy.
(c) A woman's mistake.
(d) Uncommon.

2. Totalitarian Russia is associated with what type of political beliefs?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Communism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Despotism.

3. Kipling provides nearly the only literary description of much of nineteenth-century where?
(a) Anglo-India.
(b) Anglo-Arabia.
(c) Anglo-Pacifica.
(d) Anglo-Persia.

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

5. Kipling believes that there is what type of law, that he considers morally right?
(a) Ethical.
(b) Moral.
(c) Natural.
(d) God's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kipling's poetry has penetrated into everyday language because Kipling did what?

2. Orwell believes that most of the post-Great War writers wrote without what?

3. What is the name for an entire phrase that stands for single words?

4. Orwell believes that ________ corrupts thought.

5. To a modern sensibility, much of Kipling's philosophy is what?

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