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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once Orwell won his scholarships, the school considered him what?

2. Kipling believes that there is what type of law, that he considers morally right?

3. Miss Blandish is the daughter of whom?

4. Where does Orwell shoot the elephant?

5. Dickens focuses on the institutions of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Orwell conclude about Dickens's solution for societal ills, at the end of the essay?

2. Who is Raffles?

3. What does the subsequent investigation find regarding Orwell's shooting of the elephant?

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

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

6. What describes the purpose of the semi-illicit postcards most newsstands carry?

7. What is the duality of the human experience that the semi-illict postcards represents?

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

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

10. What is the standard joke about home life that the semi-illicit postcards use?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do moral and political beliefs intertwine in society, people, and literature, according to Orwell? Support your answer using examples from the various essays.

Essay Topic 2

How does Orwell's ethnocentrism invade his writing? Does it? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

What are the social and economic divides in Orwell's world? Does Orwell perceive these divides to be useful or not? Why? Support your answer with examples from the text of the essays.

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