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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city is "Tropic of Cancer" set in?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rome.
(c) London.
(d) Madrid.

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

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

4. 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?
(a) Children.
(b) Life.
(c) Living.
(d) Society.

5. Orwell believes that ________ corrupts thought.
(a) Reduced English.
(b) Haphazard English.
(c) Poor English.
(d) Bad English.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What type of literature does Kipling write?

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

5. Orwell believes that automatic and uncritical thought does what to language?

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