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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Boys' Weekly is often described as "penny ________" what?
(a) Dreadfuls.
(b) Tastelesses.
(c) Teasers.
(d) Papers.
2. Where does Orwell point to as a negative example of what Gandhi was trying to promote?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Tibet.
(c) Taiwan.
(d) Russia.
3. How many reasons compel writers to write, according to Orwell?
(a) One or more.
(b) Four or more.
(c) Two or more.
(d) Three or more.
4. Orwell watches a troop of ______ Senegalese soldiers walk by him in Marrakech.
(a) Local.
(b) Black.
(c) Poor.
(d) Conscripted.
5. When does Orwell meet Miller?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1936.
6. Orwell says that he has generally only written solid prose when his political purpose was what?
(a) Personal.
(b) Experienced first-hand.
(c) Well defined.
(d) Democratically motivated.
7. What kind of park does Orwell sit in when he feeds the antelope?
(a) Wilderness park.
(b) City park.
(c) State park.
(d) Safari park.
8. Orwell believes that the intra-party struggles of the Spanish ______ are intricate, distant, and insignificant.
(a) Republicans.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Democrats.
(d) Communists.
9. Orwell believes that what are perpetrated by all sides in nearly all wars?
(a) Atrocities.
(b) Good acts.
(c) Murders.
(d) Deaths.
10. Who is the most reliable enemy of Fascism?
(a) The elite class.
(b) The poor.
(c) The middle-class.
(d) The working class.
11. What do boys' weeklies do to foreigners in their stories?
(a) Enslave them.
(b) Stereotype them.
(c) Ignore them.
(d) Destroy them.
12. Totalitarian Russia is associated with what type of political beliefs?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Despotism.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Communism.
13. Orwell considers, in "England Your England," how England is composed of varied what?
(a) Nationalities.
(b) Persons.
(c) Governments.
(d) Locations.
14. In what decade does a new group of writers who begin to focus on the ideal of a serious purpose in life emerge?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1950s.
15. The storylines in "Gem" and "Magnet" seem frozen at what time?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1915.
Short Answer Questions
1. Early in his life, Gandhi tried to _______ British culture.
2. The dialogue in Miller's novel is what?
3. Orwell believes that stringent social conformism means that the greatest writers write what type of works?
4. In "Why I Write," Orwell examines his ________ _______ in writing.
5. How did the British feel about Gandhi?
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