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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. Most Europeans who visit Marrakech are appalled at the harsh treatment meted out to what?
(a) The women.
(b) The cows.
(c) The donkeys.
(d) The children.

2. What kind of park does Orwell sit in when he feeds the antelope?
(a) City park.
(b) State park.
(c) Wilderness park.
(d) Safari park.

3. Gandhi believed that he should avoid having what type of friends?
(a) Close friends.
(b) Giving friends.
(c) Religious friends.
(d) Spiteful friends.

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

5. Orwell believes that the ruling class of England is what?
(a) Deceitful.
(b) Not teachable.
(c) Cowardly.
(d) Wicked.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of employee tells Orwell that he, instead of the antelope, could eat the food Orwell is giving to the antelope?

3. Orwell, although he once found Houseman to be enjoyable, now finds his writings to be what?

4. Orwell says that he has generally only written solid prose when his political purpose was what?

5. Orwell says that, since 1936, everything he has written has been what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the religious beliefs that Gandhi held?

2. What does Orwell believe about the historical accounts of the Spanish Civil War?

3. Why does Orwell give the municipal employee bread?

4. What does Orwell claim as his political leaning in his writings?

5. How has Orwell attempted to make political writing an art form?

6. What does Orwell conclude about the differences in nationality in England?

7. What does the inside of the whale represent to Orwell?

8. What are the characters in "Tropic of Cancer" like?

9. What is the real debate, that Orwell mentions, that surrounds the weeklies?

10. What does the Italian militiaman symbolize for Orwell?

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