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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Orwell worries that liberty cannot exist without what?
(a) Liberty of thought.
(b) Its opposite - oppression.
(c) Laws that protect the populace.
(d) Censorship of expression.

3. How does the elephant die?
(a) It dies quickly and painlessly.
(b) It is shot twice but dies slowly.
(c) It doesn't die, it escapes.
(d) It kills two people before finally collapsing.

4. How does Orwell describe the ideal murderer, in a murder story?
(a) Pitiable.
(b) Eccentric.
(c) Arrogant.
(d) Calculating.

5. What is Orwell's problem with phrases like "swan song"?
(a) It makes use of alliteration.
(b) It anthropomorphizes a non-human entity.
(c) It is an overused cliché.
(d) It is a dying metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the doctors in the narrator's hospital do?

2. What is the point of Orwell's essay on the English language?

3. According to Orwell, how does Gulliver change from part two to part three of "Gulliver's Travels"?

4. How many people were killed by the elephant while it was rampaging?

5. According to Burnham, what is the most important factor for class mobility, in the society he envisions?

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