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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Orwell thinks that the antelope looks like it would be good to do what to?
(a) To pet.
(b) To eat.
(c) To keep.
(d) To ride.

2. Orwell believes that revolution and warfare make people behave how?
(a) Passively.
(b) Differently.
(c) Strangely.
(d) Extremely.

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

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

5. Orwell considers, in "England Your England," how England is composed of varied what?
(a) Locations.
(b) Governments.
(c) Persons.
(d) Nationalities.

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

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

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

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

10. 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) Children.
(b) Living.
(c) Life.
(d) Society.

11. The Spanish Civil War was essentially a(n) _______ war.
(a) Internal.
(b) Baseless.
(c) Civil.
(d) Class.

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

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

14. When does Orwell meet Miller?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1934.

15. What style is "Tropic of Cancer" written in?
(a) Historical.
(b) Autobiographical.
(c) Poetic.
(d) First-person narrative.

Short Answer Questions

1. The changes in England have been accompanied by the rapid expansion of the what?

2. Orwell believes that the ruling class of England is what?

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

4. Orwell believes that war is necessarily what?

5. The dialogue in Miller's novel is what?

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