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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Orwell, while he is at school, smash in the face?
(a) Johnny McDonald.
(b) Johnny Eweing.
(c) Johnny Hall.
(d) Johnny Weston.

3. Orwell believes that Dickens is more than an author, he is a what?
(a) Hero.
(b) Institution.
(c) Leader.
(d) Icon.

4. Kipling strongly identifies with what class?
(a) The laboring class.
(b) The middle class.
(c) The poor class.
(d) The official ruling class.

5. What is one of the common writing errors that Orwell points out in his essay?
(a) Using dying phrases.
(b) Using dead analogies.
(c) Using dying metaphors.
(d) Using dead languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Orwell shoot the elephant?

2. Who is Bingo?

3. The dirty postcards are a sign that people sometimes wish that society wasn't so what?

4. Who delivers the beatings to Orwell for wetting his bed?

5. Orwell says that bad English is a good vehicle for what kind of speech?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Orwell conclude about Dickens's solution for societal ills, at the end of the essay?

2. Why is Orwell hated in Moulmein?

3. Why did Kipling's poetry resonate with middle-class readers?

4. Why has bad English been successful in the political arena?

5. Why does Orwell not consider Dickens a revolutionary writer?

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

7. What is the plot of "No Orchids for Miss Blandish"?

8. What does Orwell believe, contrary to public opinion, that corporal punishment does?

9. How is the post-Hitler world view of law different from Kipling's?

10. Describe Orwell's Sancho Panza view of life?

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