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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Orwell sees an enemy running along in full view, what is the enemy holding with his hands?
(a) His grenade.
(b) His gun.
(c) His trousers.
(d) His boots.

4. The storylines in "Gem" and "Magnet" seem frozen at what time?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1925.

5. How did Gandhi feel about the British?
(a) He was friends with them.
(b) He despised them.
(c) He didn't like them.
(d) He valued their opinion.

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

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

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

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

10. Who does most of the work on the farms in Marrakech?
(a) The men.
(b) The children.
(c) The women.
(d) The slaves.

11. Orwell believes that most of the post-Great War writers wrote without what?
(a) Political views.
(b) Political conviction.
(c) Political ideology.
(d) Political meanings.

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

13. Orwell says that all successful people share his desire for what?
(a) Receiving attention.
(b) Vainglory.
(c) Money.
(d) Influence.

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

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) Children.
(c) Living.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Orwell says that England could not become Germany any more than a turnip seed could grow into what?

3. When was Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" published?

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

5. Gandhi believed in what dietary principle?

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