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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Looking Back on the Spanish War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who delivers the beatings to Orwell for wetting his bed?
(a) The resident advisor.
(b) The dean.
(c) The principal.
(d) The headmaster.

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

3. Raffles is a cricketer who excels as a what?
(a) Slow bowler.
(b) Slow scorer.
(c) Fast scorer.
(d) Fast bowler.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Orwell questions whether Gandhi truly understood the nature of what?

2. What kind of employee tells Orwell that he, instead of the antelope, could eat the food Orwell is giving to the antelope?

3. In what type of print does Raffles appear?

4. In what country is Moulmein?

5. Gandhi was part of what country's independence movement?

(see the answer key)

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