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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Dickens, work is what?
(a) Something that happens on occasion.
(b) A moral thing.
(c) An issue of money.
(d) An event that happens elsewhere.

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

3. Kipling's ideals result in poetry that do what to junior officers in the military?
(a) De-humanizes them.
(b) Praises them.
(c) Ridicules them.
(d) Makes them heroes.

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

5. What is the "Blitz" of World War II?
(a) The sea-war.
(b) The invasion of Germany.
(c) The invasion of Russia.
(d) The air-war.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Raffles killed?

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

3. Where does Orwell point to as a negative example of what Gandhi was trying to promote?

4. Dickens suggests that if man would be decent, then _________ would be decent.

5. What type of literature does Kipling write?

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