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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many shots does Orwell fire before approaching the elephant?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) One.

3. Orwell's education at Crossgates is intended to gather him what?
(a) Scholarships.
(b) Sponsors.
(c) Good job offers.
(d) Advancement opporunities.

4. What happens to the elephant after Orwell shoots all his elephant rifle ammunition at it?
(a) It is still breathing.
(b) It wanders off.
(c) It spits up blood.
(d) It dies.

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

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

7. Who is the author of the Raffles stories?
(a) Hornung.
(b) Horntrung.
(c) Hornmurrg.
(d) Hornsung.

8. Dickens is against trade _______.
(a) Monopolies.
(b) Collusion.
(c) Embargoes.
(d) Unionism.

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

10. What breaks during Orwell's second beating?
(a) The cane.
(b) The belt.
(c) The stick.
(d) The wood.

11. Miss Blandish is the daughter of whom?
(a) A nobleman.
(b) A king.
(c) A politician.
(d) A millionaire.

12. According to Orwell, how does Kipling view life?
(a) Imperialistically.
(b) Artistically.
(c) Morally.
(d) Insensitvely.

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

14. The dirty postcards are a sign that people sometimes wish that society wasn't so what?
(a) Moral.
(b) Uptight.
(c) Civilized.
(d) Noble.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the school characterize bed-wetting?

3. How does Miss Blandish die?

4. To a modern sensibility, much of Kipling's philosophy is what?

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

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