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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. Orwell says that no book is entirely free from what?
(a) Individual history.
(b) Political bias.
(c) Personal influences.
(d) Comic relief.

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

3. Gandhi believed in what dietary principle?
(a) Carnivorism.
(b) Omnivorism.
(c) Gluten-free diets.
(d) Vegetarianism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many reasons compel writers to write, according to Orwell?

2. Orwell says that England could not become Germany any more than a turnip seed could grow into what?

3. How did Gandhi feel about the British?

4. Orwells says that the political ______ is able to create or dismiss war's happenings to fit the current political atmosphere's needs.

5. The changes in England have been accompanied by the rapid expansion of the what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What comment that Orwell makes about the weeklies indicates an assumed gender distinction?

3. What are some of the experiences that Orwell remembers about the Spanish Civil War?

4. What is one of the remarkable observations that Orwell makes about the local conditions in Marrakech?

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

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

7. Why does Orwell give the municipal employee bread?

8. Describe the poor in Marrakech.

9. What does Orwell realize when one of the Senegalese soldiers looks at him with wide, wondering eyes?

10. What is included in boys' weeklies?

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