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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The subsequent investigation finds that Orwell was _______ in shooting the elephant.
(a) Justified.
(b) Honorable.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Brave.

2. Dickens writes from what point of view?
(a) Rich.
(b) Abstract.
(c) Poor.
(d) Bourgeois.

3. Who does Orwell send to get an elephant rifle before he goes looking for the elephant?
(a) A local man.
(b) A local boy.
(c) His bodyguard.
(d) His aide de camp.

4. For Dickens, work is what?
(a) An issue of money.
(b) An event that happens elsewhere.
(c) A moral thing.
(d) Something that happens on occasion.

5. At what age do the McGill postcards imply that sex-appeal evaporates?
(a) Thirty-five.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Twenty-five.

6. Dickens is not what type of writer?
(a) Emotional.
(b) Comic.
(c) Serious.
(d) Revolutionary.

7. Kipling strongly identifies with what class?
(a) The middle class.
(b) The laboring class.
(c) The poor class.
(d) The official ruling class.

8. In general, Orwell believes that bad English ______ the language of meaning.
(a) Evaporates.
(b) Reduces.
(c) Annuls.
(d) Voids.

9. The premise of "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" is that everyone seeks to increase what?
(a) Their personal pride.
(b) Their personal power.
(c) Their personal standing.
(d) Their personal wealth.

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

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

12. Kipling believes that there is what type of law, that he considers morally right?
(a) Moral.
(b) Natural.
(c) God's.
(d) Ethical.

13. Orwell believes that Dickens is more than an author, he is a what?
(a) Hero.
(b) Leader.
(c) Institution.
(d) Icon.

14. When Orwell first comes upon the elephant, what is it eating?
(a) Peanuts.
(b) Bark.
(c) Grass.
(d) Tree leaves.

15. What trait, of the students, determines their discipline level and what classes they can take?
(a) Their economic status.
(b) Their test scores.
(c) Their intelligence level.
(d) Their future career paths.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Orwell, while he is at school, smash in the face?

2. The basic premise of the postcards that deal with marriage is that marriage benefits who?

3. How many sections is the essay on Orwell's school experiences divided into?

4. How many writing samples does Orwell mention in the beginning of "Politics and the English Language"?

5. How does Orwell, repeatedly, refer to Kipling's poetry?

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