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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 long does it take Orwell before he started wetting his bed at school?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Four weeks.
(c) Five weeks.
(d) Three weeks.

2. How does Miss Blandish die?
(a) She commits suicide.
(b) She is drowned in the river.
(c) Her kidnappers kill her.
(d) She is run over by a car.

3. What does Orwell remember catching at school?
(a) Girls.
(b) Fireflies.
(c) Insects.
(d) Chicken pox.

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

5. Orwell believes that children have no sense of ______ and therefore cannot judge things for what they are.
(a) Self-awareness.
(b) Proportion.
(c) Continuity.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orwell believes that Dickens is more than an author, he is a what?

2. Dickens is against trade _______.

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

4. Kipling believes that there is what type of law, that he considers morally right?

5. Is Donald McGill a real person?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the plot of "No Orchids for Miss Blandish"?

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

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

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

5. What is Orwell's intention when he leaves his station to look for the elephant?

6. What does Orwell conclude about Dickens's solution for societal ills, at the end of the essay?

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

8. What did Kipling's romantic ideas about England and the Empire result in?

9. What does Orwell announce after his first beating?

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

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