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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. What is one of the common writing errors that Orwell points out in his essay?
(a) Using dead analogies.
(b) Using dying phrases.
(c) Using dead languages.
(d) Using dying metaphors.

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

10. How long does it take Orwell before he started wetting his bed at school?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Five weeks.
(d) Four weeks.

11. Orwell calls the dual nature that is in all people the ________ view of life.
(a) Sancho Piazza.
(b) Sancho Pureats.
(c) Sancho Panza.
(d) Sancho Plazas.

12. Orwell believes that automatic and uncritical thought does what to language?
(a) Corrupts it.
(b) Destroys it.
(c) Reduces it.
(d) Enhances it.

13. Raffles is considered a gentleman _______.
(a) Politico.
(b) Player.
(c) Officer.
(d) Bandit.

14. What type of literature does Kipling write?
(a) Short stories.
(b) Serial stories.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Novels.

15. What is depicted on McGill postcards that is, by definition, humorous?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Children.
(c) Pregnancy.
(d) Drunkenness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under the philosophy of the school, obscene displays of wealth are indicative of what?

2. Kipling feels that suppressing and controlling native people is what?

3. What is the name for an entire phrase that stands for single words?

4. Orwell leaves the scene of the elephant shooting feeling what?

5. What is Crossgates?

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