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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Orwell believes that the intra-party struggles of the Spanish ______ are intricate, distant, and insignificant.
(a) Republicans.
(b) Democrats.
(c) Communists.
(d) Socialists.

2. Orwell says that no book is entirely free from what?
(a) Individual history.
(b) Comic relief.
(c) Personal influences.
(d) Political bias.

3. Who is the most reliable enemy of Fascism?
(a) The middle-class.
(b) The elite class.
(c) The poor.
(d) The working class.

4. Orwell watches a troop of ______ Senegalese soldiers walk by him in Marrakech.
(a) Conscripted.
(b) Local.
(c) Poor.
(d) Black.

5. Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia," has a distinctly _______ feel.
(a) Journalistic.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Historical.
(d) Political.

6. Boys' Weekly is often described as "penny ________" what?
(a) Teasers.
(b) Dreadfuls.
(c) Papers.
(d) Tastelesses.

7. Orwell says that, since 1936, everything he has written has been what?
(a) Historical.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Long.
(d) Political.

8. What does Orwell feed to the antelope?
(a) Bread.
(b) Grain.
(c) Hay.
(d) Seeds.

9. At what age did Orwell know he was going to be a writer?
(a) A very young age.
(b) A school-aged boy.
(c) A teenager.
(d) Five.

10. What city is "Tropic of Cancer" set in?
(a) London.
(b) Rome.
(c) Paris.
(d) Madrid.

11. Orwell describes himself as what?
(a) Needy.
(b) Vain.
(c) Insecure.
(d) Selfish.

12. When was Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" published?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1932.

13. Where does Orwell point to as a negative example of what Gandhi was trying to promote?
(a) Russia.
(b) Tibet.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) Taiwan.

14. Who supported Franco's defeat in the Spanish Civil War?
(a) France.
(b) America.
(c) Britain.
(d) Germany.

15. Orwell's study of English literature shows that English literature moves from a focus on the beauty of nature to a focus on the tragic nature of what?
(a) Society.
(b) Life.
(c) Children.
(d) Living.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orwell says that he has generally only written solid prose when his political purpose was what?

2. What kind of employee tells Orwell that he, instead of the antelope, could eat the food Orwell is giving to the antelope?

3. The boys' weeklies completely lack what?

4. The most marked characteristic of England, according to Orwell, is what?

5. Orwell rejects, specifically, which of Gandhi's principles as a spiritual practice?

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