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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. When did "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" appear?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1959.

2. What is depicted on McGill postcards that is, by definition, humorous?
(a) Children.
(b) Drunkenness.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Pregnancy.

3. Dickens treats all petty officials with what?
(a) Impatience.
(b) Fear.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Pity.

4. Raffles is a cricketer who excels as a what?
(a) Fast bowler.
(b) Slow bowler.
(c) Fast scorer.
(d) Slow scorer.

5. Orwell leaves the scene of the elephant shooting feeling what?
(a) Brave.
(b) Disgusted.
(c) Sad.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long does it take Orwell before he started wetting his bed at school?

3. Dickens views revolutions as what?

4. Kipling's ideas result in poetry that portrays the common foot soldier as what?

5. Orwell says that using bad English is what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why is Orwell hated in Moulmein?

7. What does the typical Dickens novel focus on?

8. Why did Kipling's poetry resonate with middle-class readers?

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

10. What does Orwell announce after his first beating?

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