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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. Orwell, although he once found Houseman to be enjoyable, now finds his writings to be what?
(a) Boring.
(b) Quaint.
(c) Ridiculous.
(d) Off-color.

7. The dialogue in Miller's novel is what?
(a) Short.
(b) Strange.
(c) Coarse.
(d) Illiterate.

8. Which is not a title Orwell lists as one of the boys' weeklies?
(a) Skipper.
(b) Rover.
(c) Hound.
(d) Champion.

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

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

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

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

13. Orwell believes that what are perpetrated by all sides in nearly all wars?
(a) Murders.
(b) Deaths.
(c) Good acts.
(d) Atrocities.

14. Non-objective truth, according to Orwell, is a diagnostic symptom of what?
(a) A totalitarian state.
(b) A communist state.
(c) A democratic state.
(d) A republican state.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first reason that writers might be compelled to write?

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

3. Orwell believes that most of the post-Great War writers wrote without what?

4. Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia," has a distinctly _______ feel.

5. The "Gem" and "Magnet" have been in continuous publication for over how long?

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