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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many scholarships does Orwell win?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

2. Orwell believes that good English writing demands what?
(a) Determination.
(b) Attention.
(c) Editing.
(d) Work.

3. Dickens focuses on the institutions of what?
(a) The past.
(b) The future.
(c) The government.
(d) Society.

4. Who delivers the beatings to Orwell for wetting his bed?
(a) The resident advisor.
(b) The dean.
(c) The principal.
(d) The headmaster.

5. Dickens treats all petty officials with what?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Fear.
(c) Impatience.
(d) Pity.

Short Answer Questions

1. McGill postcards' jokes are not witty, but are what?

2. How does the school characterize bed-wetting?

3. What type of literature does Kipling write?

4. Dickens believes that society's ills are partially due to what?

5. When did "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" appear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What, according to the headmaster, is Orwell's only function at the school?

2. What do nearly all reviewers of Dickens's work agree on?

3. What is the difference between how poor and rich students are treated at Crossgates on social occasions, such as birthdays?

4. What role does Orwell believe his past experiences have played in his life?

5. Describe Orwell's Sancho Panza view of life?

6. Why did Kipling's poetry resonate with middle-class readers?

7. What is the standard joke about home life that the semi-illicit postcards use?

8. Why does Orwell believe that Dickens is a moral writer, and not a political writer?

9. What does Orwell announce after his first beating?

10. What, according to Orwell, do the various deficiencies in Dickens's novels lead a person to conclude?

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