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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gulliver disapproves of what sort of knowledge, according to Orwell?
(a) Knowledge supported by insufficient evidence.
(b) Abstract knowledge.
(c) Knowledge used only for practical purposes.
(d) Knowledge for its own sake.

2. How does Orwell feel about spring?
(a) He observes it disinterestedly.
(b) He finds it intriguing, but it neither pleases nor displeases him.
(c) He dislikes it.
(d) He takes great pleasure in it.

3. According to Orwell, what word best describes Tolstoy's criticisms?
(a) Obsolete.
(b) Indirect.
(c) Inconsistent.
(d) Prejudiced.

4. How much does Orwell think the managerial revolution, which Burnham writes about, has influenced the United States?
(a) Not at all.
(b) A lot.
(c) Some.
(d) Very little.

5. How many reviews does the person in Chapter 14 write per year?
(a) 12.
(b) 24.
(c) 100.
(d) 52.

Short Answer Questions

1. Death, at the narrator's hospital, is personified by a patient who finds what activity difficult and painful?

2. How do the hospital staff sterilize their equipment between patients?

3. Patients in the narrator's hospital are used for what?

4. How do the Burmese treat the narrator?

5. How is the prisoner going to be executed?

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