View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the Burmese jail described?
(a) Wet and unsanitary.
(b) Spacious and institutional.
(c) Old and musty.
(d) Small and dank.

2. The murderer, according to Orwell, kills his victim to avoid what?
(a) Divorce.
(b) Disgrace or scandal.
(c) Financial ruin.
(d) Imprisonment.

3. What do the doctors in the narrator's hospital do?
(a) Triage the patients, starting with the most critically injured.
(b) Travel from one target patient to the next, ignoring the other patients who are suffering.
(c) Make the terminally ill patients as comfortable as possible.
(d) Intervene in only the most critical situations.

4. What does Burnham write about the atrocities Stalin committed?
(a) The world believed Stalin because he gave just enough evidence to back up his claims.
(b) The things he did were so outrageous that the rest of the world was inclined to believe his reasons for doing so.
(c) The world wasn't aware of anything Stalin did until after he died.
(d) The world knew Stalin was crazy, but couldn't do anything to stop him.

5. What method of killing does Orwell prefer for murder mysteries?
(a) Shooting.
(b) Stabbing.
(c) Hitting someone with a car.
(d) Poisoning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orwell feels that Swift, through "Gulliver's Travels", is attacking what sort of government structure?

2. The subject of Chapter 14 reviews what?

3. How many reviews does the person in Chapter 14 write per year?

4. Why is Orwell skeptical of Gandhi's celibacy and vegetarianism?

5. What event does Orwell cite as evidence for his argument about sports?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 320 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample