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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Orwell considers, in "England Your England," how England is composed of varied what?
(a) Persons.
(b) Nationalities.
(c) Locations.
(d) Governments.

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

3. What kind of employee tells Orwell that he, instead of the antelope, could eat the food Orwell is giving to the antelope?
(a) Park employee.
(b) State employee.
(c) Municipal employee.
(d) Animal caretaker employee.

4. All Chinese, in "Gem" and "Magent," wear what?
(a) A pigtail.
(b) A sword.
(c) A robe.
(d) A mask.

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

6. What city is "Tropic of Cancer" set in?
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) Madrid.
(d) London.

7. Gandhi became a political figure because he experienced what?
(a) Resentment.
(b) Prestige.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Discrimination.

8. The changes in England have been accompanied by the rapid expansion of the what?
(a) Middle class.
(b) Government.
(c) Economic gap.
(d) Poor class.

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

10. The boys' weeklies completely lack what?
(a) Reality.
(b) Sad stories.
(c) Political development.
(d) Working-class characters.

11. The storylines in "Gem" and "Magnet" seem frozen at what time?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1910.

12. When Orwell sees an enemy running along in full view, what is the enemy holding with his hands?
(a) His trousers.
(b) His boots.
(c) His gun.
(d) His grenade.

13. The Yank Mags focus on what?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Exploring.
(c) Fashion.
(d) Quests.

14. The stories in the boys' weeklies are ______ and _________.
(a) Realistic and humorous.
(b) Fanciful and stylized.
(c) Basic and simple.
(d) Complex and stagnant.

15. Orwell watches a troop of ______ Senegalese soldiers walk by him in Marrakech.
(a) Poor.
(b) Conscripted.
(c) Local.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orwell questions whether Gandhi truly understood the nature of what?

2. Orwell describes himself as what?

3. Who supported Franco's defeat in the Spanish Civil War?

4. Orwell's study of English literature shows that English literature moves from a focus on the beauty of nature to a focus on the tragic nature of what?

5. Gandhi believed in what dietary principle?

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