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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do boys' weeklies do to foreigners in their stories?
(a) Enslave them.
(b) Destroy them.
(c) Stereotype them.
(d) Ignore them.

2. Who supported Franco's defeat in the Spanish Civil War?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) America.
(d) Britain.

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

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

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

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

7. English citizens, according to Orwell, have a love of what, but not because of aesthetics?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Women.

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

9. Why do the English people support the brutal and discriminatory laws?
(a) They don't know anything better.
(b) They value the rule of law.
(c) They have no choice.
(d) They think it has always been this way.

10. Orwell rejects, specifically, which of Gandhi's principles as a spiritual practice?
(a) Material belongings principles.
(b) Political principles.
(c) Dietary principles.
(d) Friend principles.

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

12. How many reasons compel writers to write, according to Orwell?
(a) One or more.
(b) Three or more.
(c) Four or more.
(d) Two or more.

13. Orwell believes that revolution and warfare make people behave how?
(a) Differently.
(b) Strangely.
(c) Extremely.
(d) Passively.

14. Which is not a title Orwell lists as one of the boys' weeklies?
(a) Skipper.
(b) Champion.
(c) Rover.
(d) Hound.

15. Early in his life, Gandhi tried to _______ British culture.
(a) Reject.
(b) Promote.
(c) Assimilate.
(d) Ignore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi believed in what dietary principle?

2. Orwell believes that what are perpetrated by all sides in nearly all wars?

3. When Orwell sees an enemy running along in full view, what is the enemy holding with his hands?

4. Gandhi was part of what country's independence movement?

5. Orwell believes that most of the post-Great War writers wrote without what?

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