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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 feels that suppressing and controlling native people is what?
(a) Honorable.
(b) Bestial.
(c) Normal.
(d) Horrible.

2. Orwell says that bad English is a good vehicle for what kind of speech?
(a) Moral.
(b) Honest.
(c) Political.
(d) Rhetorical.

3. Dickens says that proper acts are those that are historically what?
(a) Justified.
(b) Inevitable.
(c) Valid.
(d) Needed.

4. Orwell says that Dickens never wrote of what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Government.
(c) Sickness.
(d) Battle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The dirty postcards are a sign that people sometimes wish that society wasn't so what?

2. How does the school characterize bed-wetting?

3. The result of Orwell's translation of a verse from the Bible into typical bad English is what?

4. According to Orwell, how does Kipling view life?

5. How many cartridges does Orwell get with his elephant rifle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the typical Dickens novel focus on?

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

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

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