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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Reflections on Gandhi.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Orwell believes that automatic and uncritical thought does what to language?
(a) Destroys it.
(b) Enhances it.
(c) Reduces it.
(d) Corrupts it.

2. When did "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" appear?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1969.

3. Who is the author of the Raffles stories?
(a) Hornsung.
(b) Horntrung.
(c) Hornung.
(d) Hornmurrg.

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

5. Where does Orwell point to as a negative example of what Gandhi was trying to promote?
(a) Russia.
(b) Tibet.
(c) Taiwan.
(d) Ukraine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kipling feels that suppressing and controlling native people is what?

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

3. Orwell says that bad English is a good vehicle for what kind of speech?

4. Dickens writes from what point of view?

5. Dickens says that proper acts are those that are historically what?

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