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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the creature do as the prisoner is being led to his execution?
(a) Jumps up and tries to lick the prisoner's face.
(b) Stings the attending guard.
(c) Bites the executioner.
(d) Rampages through the crowd of spectators.

2. According to Orwell, how would reviews be handled in an ideal world?
(a) Ordinary people would write reviews and share them with one another.
(b) The number of works being reviewed would be greatly restricted.
(c) More people would write reviews, so that each reviewer wouldn't have to do as much work.
(d) There wouldn't be any reviews.

3. According to Orwell, what should the relationship be between the murderer and the victim?
(a) Son or daughter.
(b) Spouse.
(c) Sibling.
(d) Lover.

4. How does Orwell feel about books?
(a) He enjoys reading, but wishes that books were cheaper.
(b) He prefers reading to most activities, but understands why other people might not.
(c) He laments the prioritization of the people who don't read.
(d) He prefers movies, unless he finds a really good book that can be read again and again.

5. How does Orwell feel about Jack the Ripper?
(a) He thinks it was actually a group of people committing the murders.
(b) He committed "perfect" murders, worthy of being turned into literature.
(c) He thinks he was sloppy, and just got lucky in not being caught.
(d) He thinks he was a fraud.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Orwell describe the ideal murderer, in a murder story?

2. Tolstoy accuses the playwright he is criticizing of having a philosophy similar to whom?

3. How were the nurses in the hospital described?

4. How did the narrator leave the hospital?

5. In "The Managerial Revolution", what does Burnham say about capitalism?

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