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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Orwell leaves the scene of the elephant shooting feeling what?
(a) Sad.
(b) Happy.
(c) Brave.
(d) Disgusted.
2. Most characters illustrated on McGill postcards are what?
(a) Stock figures.
(b) Cartoon figures.
(c) Family figures.
(d) Stick figures.
3. McGill postcards say that a man can never win what with a woman?
(a) A fight.
(b) An argument.
(c) A game.
(d) A poker game.
4. How many cartridges does Orwell get with his elephant rifle?
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Six,
(d) Seven.
5. Who does Orwell, while he is at school, smash in the face?
(a) Johnny Eweing.
(b) Johnny Weston.
(c) Johnny McDonald.
(d) Johnny Hall.
6. Dickens is not what type of writer?
(a) Serious.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Revolutionary.
(d) Comic.
7. Dickens suggests that if man would be decent, then _________ would be decent.
(a) Humanity.
(b) Society.
(c) Children.
(d) Government.
8. Orwell believes that ________ corrupts thought.
(a) Reduced English.
(b) Bad English.
(c) Haphazard English.
(d) Poor English.
9. What does Orwell remember catching at school?
(a) Fireflies.
(b) Insects.
(c) Chicken pox.
(d) Girls.
10. What trait, of the students, determines their discipline level and what classes they can take?
(a) Their intelligence level.
(b) Their economic status.
(c) Their test scores.
(d) Their future career paths.
11. Kipling feels that suppressing and controlling native people is what?
(a) Horrible.
(b) Honorable.
(c) Normal.
(d) Bestial.
12. Orwell finds it remarkable that Dickens attacked everyone without __________ anybody.
(a) Antagonizing.
(b) Hurting.
(c) Pleasing.
(d) Making enemies of.
13. Orwell calls the dual nature that is in all people the ________ view of life.
(a) Sancho Plazas.
(b) Sancho Panza.
(c) Sancho Piazza.
(d) Sancho Pureats.
14. Kipling provides nearly the only literary description of much of nineteenth-century where?
(a) Anglo-Pacifica.
(b) Anglo-Arabia.
(c) Anglo-Persia.
(d) Anglo-India.
15. McGill postcards' jokes are not witty, but are what?
(a) Vulgar.
(b) Well-writen.
(c) Humorous.
(d) Disgusting,
Short Answer Questions
1. In Moulmein, Orwell serves in what capacity?
2. What type of literature does Kipling write?
3. Dickens believes that what type of children shouldn't have to work long shifts in crushing labor?
4. Dickens believes that society's ills are partially due to what?
5. How many shots does Orwell fire before approaching the elephant?
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