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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Orwell, the English common people exhibit a type of ________ feeling.
(a) Christian.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Restrictive.
(d) Emotional.

2. Gandhi's methods presupposed that the British regime would react in what type of manner?
(a) Rational.
(b) Violent.
(c) Insane.
(d) Peaceful.

3. What age are the boy's weeklies aimed at?
(a) 12-16.
(b) 10-16.
(c) 11-16.
(d) 9-16.

4. Where is Marrakech?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Korea.
(d) Tahiti.

5. Orwell says that England could not become Germany any more than a turnip seed could grow into what?
(a) A flower.
(b) A parsnip.
(c) A tree.
(d) An onion.

6. Orwell believes that war is necessarily what?
(a) Wearying.
(b) Evil.
(c) Taxing.
(d) Useful.

7. Orwell regrets that there are no ____________ boys' weeklies.
(a) More dramatic.
(b) Realistic.
(c) Left-leaning.
(d) Better written.

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

9. Orwell says that, since 1936, everything he has written has been what?
(a) Long.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Historical.
(d) Political.

10. Where does Orwell point to as a negative example of what Gandhi was trying to promote?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Russia.
(c) Taiwan.
(d) Tibet.

11. Non-objective truth, according to Orwell, is a diagnostic symptom of what?
(a) A communist state.
(b) A totalitarian state.
(c) A democratic state.
(d) A republican state.

12. When was Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" published?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1935.

13. Totalitarian Russia is associated with what type of political beliefs?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Despotism.
(d) Communism.

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

15. Orwell says that no armed force, just perceptions, maintain what?
(a) The condition of the children.
(b) The enslavement of the locals.
(c) The condition of the women.
(d) The social structure.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi believed in what dietary principle?

2. Orwell doesn't believe that Gandhi's political beliefs can be separated from what?

3. Orwell's early attempts at writing were focused on what type of poems?

4. What, does Orwell believe, is stronger than class hatred in England?

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

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