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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. Kipling believes that there is what type of law, that he considers morally right?
(a) Moral.
(b) Natural.
(c) God's.
(d) Ethical.

2. McGill postcards say that a man can never win what with a woman?
(a) A game.
(b) A fight.
(c) An argument.
(d) A poker game.

3. What type of literature does Kipling write?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Serial stories.
(c) Novels.
(d) Short stories.

4. Miss Blandish is the daughter of whom?
(a) A nobleman.
(b) A politician.
(c) A millionaire.
(d) A king.

5. How man people gather to watch Orwell find the elephant?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 2,000,000.
(d) 2,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. The basic premise of the postcards that deal with marriage is that marriage benefits who?

2. Orwell says that using bad English is what?

3. What trait, of the students, determines their discipline level and what classes they can take?

4. Orwell leaves the scene of the elephant shooting feeling what?

5. Once Orwell won his scholarships, the school considered him what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Orwell announce after his first beating?

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

4. What are some of the simple pleasures Orwell remembers from school?

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

6. Why is Orwell hated in Moulmein?

7. Why does Orwell not consider Dickens a revolutionary writer?

8. Who is Raffles?

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

10. What does Orwell believe, contrary to public opinion, that corporal punishment does?

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