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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 believes that Kipling's poetry is remembered because of what?
(a) The tonal qualities to the writing.
(b) The portrayal of values.
(c) The lyrical way it is written.
(d) The subject matter.

2. When does Orwell meet Miller?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1935.

3. What style is "Tropic of Cancer" written in?
(a) Poetic.
(b) Historical.
(c) First-person narrative.
(d) Autobiographical.

4. Orwell believes that most of the post-Great War writers wrote without what?
(a) Political views.
(b) Political ideology.
(c) Political conviction.
(d) Political meanings.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Orwell believes that ________ corrupts thought.

4. According to Orwell, how does Kipling view life?

5. What type of literature does Kipling write?

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