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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. Under the philosophy of the school, obscene displays of wealth are indicative of what?
(a) Social superiority.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Redemption and power.
(d) Moral goodness.

2. What breaks during Orwell's second beating?
(a) The stick.
(b) The wood.
(c) The cane.
(d) The belt.

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

4. Dickens focuses on the institutions of what?
(a) The government.
(b) The past.
(c) Society.
(d) The future.

5. What happens to the elephant after Orwell shoots all his elephant rifle ammunition at it?
(a) It wanders off.
(b) It is still breathing.
(c) It spits up blood.
(d) It dies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Raffles is considered a gentleman _______.

3. What is depicted on McGill postcards that is, by definition, humorous?

4. Who is the author of the Raffles stories?

5. Who delivers the beatings to Orwell for wetting his bed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is "bad English writing," according to Orwell?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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