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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. In what type of print does Raffles appear?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Magazines.
(c) Books.
(d) Blogs.

2. Orwell believes that children have no sense of ______ and therefore cannot judge things for what they are.
(a) Continuity.
(b) Self-awareness.
(c) History.
(d) Proportion.

3. How does the school characterize bed-wetting?
(a) Sad.
(b) Pathetic.
(c) Weak.
(d) Evil.

4. Orwell leaves the scene of the elephant shooting feeling what?
(a) Brave.
(b) Happy.
(c) Disgusted.
(d) Sad.

5. How did the British feel about Gandhi?
(a) They respected him.
(b) They honored him.
(c) They favored him.
(d) They feared him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orwell believes that Kipling's poetry is remembered because of what?

2. Dickens believes that what type of children shouldn't have to work long shifts in crushing labor?

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

4. Why does Orwell shoot the elephant?

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

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