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

2. In what country is Moulmein?
(a) Lower Arabia.
(b) Lower Pakistan.
(c) Lower India.
(d) Lower Burma.

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

4. What trait, of the students, determines their discipline level and what classes they can take?
(a) Their economic status.
(b) Their future career paths.
(c) Their test scores.
(d) Their intelligence level.

5. The dirty postcards are a sign that people sometimes wish that society wasn't so what?
(a) Noble.
(b) Uptight.
(c) Civilized.
(d) Moral.

Short Answer Questions

1. The obscene McGill postcards are tolerated because they are based on what?

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

3. How many shots does Orwell fire before approaching the elephant?

4. Dickens writes from what point of view?

5. Raffles is considered a gentleman _______.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is the post-Hitler world view of law different from Kipling's?

5. Why does Orwell refer to Kipling's poetry as "good bad poetry"?

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

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

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

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

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

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