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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the hospital staff sterilize their equipment between patients?
(a) They don't.
(b) They boil the tools.
(c) They dip the tools in rubbing alcohol.
(d) They use an autoclave.

2. According to Gulliver, scientists should not concern themselves with what area of thought?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Politics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Sociology.

3. According to Orwell, what were Smith's religious beliefs?
(a) Swift subscribed to his own form of spirituality.
(b) Swift believed in a higher power, but rejected organized religions.
(c) Swift was a firm believer in the necessity of organized religion.
(d) He was not a religious man.

4. How were the nurses in the hospital described?
(a) Compassionate, but incompetent.
(b) Incapable and unsanitary.
(c) The hospital had no nurses, only a few overburdened doctors.
(d) Capable, but uncaring.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orwell feel can help to reverse the downward trend of the English language?

2. What two groups does Orwell name as an example of people for whom Satyagraha would be an ineffective political tool?

3. How does Orwell propose to aid the English language?

4. What do the magistrates and police do after the prisoner's death?

5. What is Orwell's reasoning for the shifts in Gulliver's character?

(see the answer key)

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