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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The basic premise of the postcards that deal with marriage is that marriage benefits who?
(a) Only the men.
(b) Only the women.
(c) Only the children.
(d) Both the men and the women.

2. In what country is Moulmein?
(a) Lower Burma.
(b) Lower Pakistan.
(c) Lower India.
(d) Lower Arabia.

3. Why does Orwell shoot the elephant?
(a) He was in danger.
(b) It ran at him.
(c) It was clearly wild.
(d) Peer pressure.

4. The obscene McGill postcards are tolerated because they are based on what?
(a) Humor.
(b) Immoral behaviors.
(c) Stereotypes.
(d) Accepted values.

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

6. McGill postcards say that a man can never win what with a woman?
(a) An argument.
(b) A game.
(c) A poker game.
(d) A fight.

7. Where does Orwell shoot the elephant?
(a) In the chest.
(b) In the head.
(c) In the foot.
(d) In the back.

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

9. McGill's postcards are designed to get what?
(a) Sold.
(b) Collected.
(c) A laugh.
(d) Noticed.

10. McGill postcards' jokes are not witty, but are what?
(a) Humorous.
(b) Well-writen.
(c) Vulgar.
(d) Disgusting,

11. Orwell believes that ________ corrupts thought.
(a) Poor English.
(b) Reduced English.
(c) Haphazard English.
(d) Bad English.

12. Dickens treats all petty officials with what?
(a) Impatience.
(b) Pity.
(c) Fear.
(d) Contempt.

13. Among the poorer students, illnesses are considered to be be a form of what?
(a) Moral defect.
(b) Bad behavior.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Bad breeding.

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

15. Dickens focuses on the institutions of what?
(a) Society.
(b) The government.
(c) The future.
(d) The past.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Dickens, work is what?

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

3. What is one of the schools that Crossgates graduates attend?

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

5. In Moulmein, Orwell serves in what capacity?

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