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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. Dickens views revolutions as what?
(a) Needed.
(b) Necessary.
(c) Awesome.
(d) Horrible.
2. With what accent do all of Dickens's heroes speak?
(a) Middle-class.
(b) Upper-class.
(c) Slums.
(d) Dock worker.
3. Dickens suggests that if man would be decent, then _________ would be decent.
(a) Children.
(b) Society.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Government.
4. How many sections is the essay on Orwell's school experiences divided into?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.
5. The basic premise of the postcards that deal with marriage is that marriage benefits who?
(a) Only the women.
(b) Both the men and the women.
(c) Only the children.
(d) Only the men.
Short Answer Questions
1. Miss Blandish is the daughter of whom?
2. Who is the author of the Raffles stories?
3. The dirty postcards are a sign that people sometimes wish that society wasn't so what?
4. Who does Orwell, while he is at school, smash in the face?
5. How many cartridges does Orwell get with his elephant rifle?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Orwell refer to Kipling's poetry as "good bad poetry"?
2. How are the Raffles novels and "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" similar?
3. What are some of the simple pleasures Orwell remembers from school?
4. Why did Kipling's poetry resonate with middle-class readers?
5. What does the subsequent investigation find regarding Orwell's shooting of the elephant?
6. What is the standard joke about home life that the semi-illicit postcards use?
7. What, according to Orwell, do the various deficiencies in Dickens's novels lead a person to conclude?
8. What are the common writing errors that Orwell enumerates in his "Politics and the English Language" essay?
9. What does the typical Dickens novel focus on?
10. What is the duality of the human experience that the semi-illict postcards represents?
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