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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. For Dickens, work is what?
(a) An issue of money.
(b) Something that happens on occasion.
(c) A moral thing.
(d) An event that happens elsewhere.

2. The basic premise of the postcards that deal with marriage is that marriage benefits who?
(a) Both the men and the women.
(b) Only the men.
(c) Only the children.
(d) Only the women.

3. When political truth is difficult, meaningless ________ becomes acceptable.
(a) Imagery.
(b) Descriptions.
(c) Metaphors.
(d) Euphemism.

4. What is the "Blitz" of World War II?
(a) The sea-war.
(b) The air-war.
(c) The invasion of Russia.
(d) The invasion of Germany.

5. Among the poorer students, illnesses are considered to be be a form of what?
(a) Bad breeding.
(b) Moral defect.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Bad behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kipling provides nearly the only literary description of much of nineteenth-century where?

2. Orwell believes that good English writing demands what?

3. Orwell says that bad English is a good vehicle for what kind of speech?

4. How does the school characterize bed-wetting?

5. McGill postcards say that a man can never win what with a woman?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the subsequent investigation find regarding Orwell's shooting of the elephant?

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

5. How are the Raffles novels and "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" similar?

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

7. Who is Raffles?

8. Why is Orwell hated in Moulmein?

9. What does the typical Dickens novel focus on?

10. What is Orwell's motivation for shooting the elephant?

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