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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. What breaks during Orwell's second beating?

2. How does the school characterize bed-wetting?

3. Orwell believes that automatic and uncritical thought does what to language?

4. Kipling provides nearly the only literary description of much of nineteenth-century where?

5. How many scholarships does Orwell win?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Orwell hated in Moulmein?

4. What are the common writing errors that Orwell enumerates in his "Politics and the English Language" essay?

5. What is Orwell's intention when he leaves his station to look for the elephant?

6. Who is Raffles?

7. What role does Orwell believe his past experiences have played in his life?

8. Why does Orwell believe that Dickens is a moral writer, and not a political writer?

9. What did Kipling's romantic ideas about England and the Empire result in?

10. What, according to Orwell, do the various deficiencies in Dickens's novels lead a person to conclude?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Orwell states, in "Why I Write," that he writes solid prose when his political purpose is well defined. Do you agree with Orwell's characterization of himself? Why or why not? Support your answer with 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

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

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