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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. Who is at the top of the social pyramid in Marrakech?
(a) Rich merchants.
(b) English imperialists.
(c) Army commanders.
(d) Rich farmers.

2. What is the first reason that writers might be compelled to write?
(a) They want to have influence.
(b) They want to be talked about.
(c) The want to be seen.
(d) They want to earn money.

3. The officers of the Senegalese soldiers are not marching, they are what?
(a) Riding in a jeep.
(b) Mounted.
(c) Riding in a sedan chair.
(d) Relaxing.

4. Boys' Weekly is often described as "penny ________" what?
(a) Dreadfuls.
(b) Teasers.
(c) Tastelesses.
(d) Papers.

5. Orwell says that, since 1936, everything he has written has been what?
(a) Historical.
(b) Political.
(c) Long.
(d) Scientific.

Short Answer Questions

1. English national characteristics include a lack of what type of inclination?

2. Who does most of the work on the farms in Marrakech?

3. Orwell says that no book is entirely free from what?

4. Orwell watches a troop of ______ Senegalese soldiers walk by him in Marrakech.

5. In "Why I Write," Orwell examines his ________ _______ in writing.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How has Orwell attempted to make political writing an art form?

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

4. What must writers avoid, in order not to destroy their impulse to write?

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

6. What are the characters in "Tropic of Cancer" like?

7. What is one of the remarkable observations that Orwell makes about the local conditions in Marrakech?

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

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

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

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