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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 sections is the essay on Orwell's school experiences divided into?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

2. Dickens did not write about what?
(a) The family.
(b) The monarchy.
(c) The elite.
(d) The proletariat.

3. Kipling provides nearly the only literary description of much of nineteenth-century where?
(a) Anglo-Persia.
(b) Anglo-Arabia.
(c) Anglo-Pacifica.
(d) Anglo-India.

4. McGill postcards' jokes are not witty, but are what?
(a) Well-writen.
(b) Vulgar.
(c) Disgusting,
(d) Humorous.

5. Raffles is considered a gentleman _______.
(a) Player.
(b) Bandit.
(c) Officer.
(d) Politico.

Short Answer Questions

1. Raffles is a cricketer who excels as a what?

2. Kipling feels that suppressing and controlling native people is what?

3. How long does it take Orwell before he started wetting his bed at school?

4. Orwell believes that children have no sense of ______ and therefore cannot judge things for what they are.

5. The students at the school are told that those who are sinful will exhibit their sin by what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the common writing errors that Orwell enumerates in his "Politics and the English Language" essay?

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

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

4. What is "bad English writing," according to Orwell?

5. What describes the purpose of the semi-illicit postcards most newsstands carry?

6. Why has bad English been successful in the political arena?

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

8. What happens when Raffles is caught in the strange circumstances?

9. What does Orwell announce after his first beating?

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

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