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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Why I Write.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dickens suggests that if man would be decent, then _________ would be decent.
(a) Government.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Children.
(d) Society.

2. Who does Orwell send to get an elephant rifle before he goes looking for the elephant?
(a) A local boy.
(b) A local man.
(c) His aide de camp.
(d) His bodyguard.

3. The McGill postcards say that no marriage is what?
(a) Valid.
(b) Complete.
(c) Argument-free.
(d) Happy.

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

5. At what age did Orwell know he was going to be a writer?
(a) A teenager.
(b) Five.
(c) A very young age.
(d) A school-aged boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kipling's poetry has penetrated into everyday language because Kipling did what?

2. How man people gather to watch Orwell find the elephant?

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

4. The premise of "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" is that everyone seeks to increase what?

5. Gandhi became a political figure because he experienced what?

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