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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. England has a vast division between what?
(a) The north and the south.
(b) The east and the west.
(c) The noble and the common.
(d) The rich and the poor.

2. What is the first reason that writers might be compelled to write?
(a) They want to have influence.
(b) They want to be talked about.
(c) The want to be seen.
(d) They want to earn money.

3. Orwell rejects, specifically, which of Gandhi's principles as a spiritual practice?
(a) Material belongings principles.
(b) Friend principles.
(c) Dietary principles.
(d) Political principles.

4. English citizens, according to Orwell, have a love of what, but not because of aesthetics?
(a) Pictures.
(b) Women.
(c) Paintings.
(d) Flowers.

5. Orwell believes that war is necessarily what?
(a) Taxing.
(b) Wearying.
(c) Useful.
(d) Evil.

6. The "Gem" and "Magnet" have been in continuous publication for over how long?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 60 years.
(c) 40 years.
(d) 30 years.

7. The main serialized stories of both "Gem" and "Magnet" focus on what?
(a) Athletics.
(b) School life.
(c) Church.
(d) Home life.

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

9. What is the name of the side opposite Orwell in the Spanish Civil War?
(a) The Empirists.
(b) The Fascists.
(c) The Elitists.
(d) The Socialists.

10. In what decade does a new group of writers who begin to focus on the ideal of a serious purpose in life emerge?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1960s.

11. Orwells says that the political ______ is able to create or dismiss war's happenings to fit the current political atmosphere's needs.
(a) Process.
(b) Press.
(c) Elite.
(d) Machine.

12. Gandhi became a political figure because he experienced what?
(a) Discrimination.
(b) Prestige.
(c) Resentment.
(d) Fatigue.

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

14. Gandhi's methods presupposed that the British regime would react in what type of manner?
(a) Insane.
(b) Violent.
(c) Rational.
(d) Peaceful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The officers of the Senegalese soldiers are not marching, they are what?

2. Orwell questions whether Gandhi truly understood the nature of what?

3. Gandhi was part of what country's independence movement?

4. Orwell says that no armed force, just perceptions, maintain what?

5. What does Orwell feed to the antelope?

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