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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. The main serialized stories of both "Gem" and "Magnet" focus on what?
(a) Athletics.
(b) Home life.
(c) Church.
(d) School life.

2. Orwell says that he has generally only written solid prose when his political purpose was what?
(a) Democratically motivated.
(b) Experienced first-hand.
(c) Personal.
(d) Well defined.

3. When Orwell writes the essay, "England Your England," German planes are bombing where?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Scotland.
(c) London.
(d) Picadilly.

4. Orwell believes that what are perpetrated by all sides in nearly all wars?
(a) Deaths.
(b) Murders.
(c) Good acts.
(d) Atrocities.

5. Orwells says that the political ______ is able to create or dismiss war's happenings to fit the current political atmosphere's needs.
(a) Process.
(b) Elite.
(c) Machine.
(d) Press.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi was part of what country's independence movement?

2. Who supported Franco's defeat in the Spanish Civil War?

3. Orwell says that, since 1936, everything he has written has been what?

4. Miller telld Orwell that his goal of direct participation in the Spanish Civil War was what?

5. When does Orwell meet Miller?

Short Essay Questions

1. What comment that Orwell makes about the weeklies indicates an assumed gender distinction?

2. What is the difference between patriotism and national loyalty for Orwell?

3. What does Orwell conclude about the differences in nationality in England?

4. What do Gandhi's methods of non-violence require from the government?

5. What does Orwell claim as his political leaning in his writings?

6. What is a Yank Mag?

7. Describe the poor in Marrakech.

8. How does Orwell feel about Gandhi?

9. What does the inside of the whale represent to Orwell?

10. What does Orwell believe about the historical accounts of the Spanish Civil War?

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