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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In general, Orwell believes that bad English ______ the language of meaning.
(a) Annuls.
(b) Evaporates.
(c) Reduces.
(d) Voids.

3. Kipling strongly identifies with what class?
(a) The laboring class.
(b) The official ruling class.
(c) The poor class.
(d) The middle class.

4. What is the name for an entire phrase that stands for single words?
(a) False operators.
(b) Summary phrases.
(c) Small operators.
(d) Summary words.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Kipling's ideas result in poetry that portrays the common foot soldier as what?

3. How does Orwell, repeatedly, refer to Kipling's poetry?

4. When does Orwell meet Miller?

5. Orwell's study of English literature shows that English literature moves from a focus on the beauty of nature to a focus on the tragic nature of what?

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