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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the British feel about Gandhi?
(a) They honored him.
(b) They favored him.
(c) They feared him.
(d) They respected him.

2. Orwell believes that the ruling class of England is what?
(a) Deceitful.
(b) Not teachable.
(c) Wicked.
(d) Cowardly.

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

4. What do boys' weeklies do to foreigners in their stories?
(a) Enslave them.
(b) Destroy them.
(c) Ignore them.
(d) Stereotype them.

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

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

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

8. Which religious type, in Marrakech, is crowded into restricted areas?
(a) Jews.
(b) Hindus.
(c) Christians.
(d) Muslims.

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

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

11. Orwell believes that stringent social conformism means that the greatest writers write what type of works?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Short stories.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Non-fiction.

12. The Yank Mags focus on what?
(a) Quests.
(b) Exploring.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Fashion.

13. Orwell questions whether Gandhi truly understood the nature of what?
(a) Dictatorships.
(b) Monarchies.
(c) Colonialism.
(d) Totalitarianism.

14. Orwell says that no armed force, just perceptions, maintain what?
(a) The condition of the children.
(b) The condition of the women.
(c) The social structure.
(d) The enslavement of the locals.

15. Orwell says that England could not become Germany any more than a turnip seed could grow into what?
(a) An onion.
(b) A parsnip.
(c) A tree.
(d) A flower.

Short Answer Questions

1. The stories in the boys' weeklies are ______ and _________.

2. Orwells says that the political ______ is able to create or dismiss war's happenings to fit the current political atmosphere's needs.

3. Orwell, although he once found Houseman to be enjoyable, now finds his writings to be what?

4. The storylines in "Gem" and "Magnet" seem frozen at what time?

5. The Spanish Civil War was essentially a(n) _______ war.

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