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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) Church.
(b) Home life.
(c) School life.
(d) Athletics.

2. Orwell believes that revolution and warfare make people behave how?
(a) Strangely.
(b) Passively.
(c) Extremely.
(d) Differently.

3. How did Gandhi feel about the British?
(a) He valued their opinion.
(b) He was friends with them.
(c) He didn't like them.
(d) He despised them.

4. When was Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" published?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1935.

5. Who is the most reliable enemy of Fascism?
(a) The elite class.
(b) The poor.
(c) The working class.
(d) The middle-class.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi believed that he should avoid having what type of friends?

2. The most marked characteristic of England, according to Orwell, is what?

3. Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia," has a distinctly _______ feel.

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

5. Orwell describes himself as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the British government look favorably on Gandhi?

2. What are some of the experiences that Orwell remembers about the Spanish Civil War?

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

4. What is the real debate, that Orwell mentions, that surrounds the weeklies?

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

6. Describe the poor in Marrakech.

7. What does Orwell realize when one of the Senegalese soldiers looks at him with wide, wondering eyes?

8. How were the authors of the 1930s able to write about their communist politics?

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

10. Who does Miller write about in "Tropic of Cancer"?

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