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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Why I Write.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what decade does a new group of writers who begin to focus on the ideal of a serious purpose in life emerge?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1940s.

2. Who does Orwell, while he is at school, smash in the face?
(a) Johnny Hall.
(b) Johnny McDonald.
(c) Johnny Weston.
(d) Johnny Eweing.

3. The students at the school are told that those who are sinful will exhibit their sin by what?
(a) Red marks on their palms,
(b) Sickness and depression.
(c) Guilty facial expressions.
(d) Black rings around their eyes.

4. In one example, Orwell translates a verse from what book into typical bad English?
(a) New Version Bible.
(b) Old Latin Bible.
(c) King James Bible.
(d) Christian Bible.

5. How man people gather to watch Orwell find the elephant?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 2,000,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 2,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orwell feed to the antelope?

2. Orwell calls the dual nature that is in all people the ________ view of life.

3. Orwell believes that stringent social conformism means that the greatest writers write what type of works?

4. Orwell says that no armed force, just perceptions, maintain what?

5. At what age do the McGill postcards imply that sex-appeal evaporates?

(see the answer key)

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