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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Orwell feel about Gandhi's involvement in politics?
(a) He admires Gandhi's pacifist methods of enacting change.
(b) He feels that Gandhi's talents would have been wasted in any other field.
(c) He feels Gandhi's saintliness may have been sullied by his involvement in politics.
(d) He feels that Gandhi didn't really accomplish much in his political career.

2. According to Orwell, what is the reason that people don't read?
(a) They would rather go to movies, to pubs, or watch dog racing.
(b) The plots of most books are boring.
(c) Reading a book takes too much effort.
(d) Books are too expensive.

3. Orwell says, in Chapter 12, that he has occasionally found what in summer?
(a) A den of fox kits.
(b) A toad that never woke up from hibernation.
(c) A patch of wheat.
(d) A salamander, under a log.

4. How do the Burmese treat the narrator?
(a) They are openly violent at times.
(b) They are respectful to his face, but sneer at him behind his back.
(c) They harass and insult him whenever they can.
(d) They are respectful and grateful to him.

5. How does Orwell feel about people bonding through sports?
(a) He doesn't offer an opinion.
(b) He thinks it is the best way to bond.
(c) He doesn't believe it is possible.
(d) He thinks there are better ways to bond.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Gulliver, scientists should not concern themselves with what area of thought?

2. Orwell remarks that no one ever plants what type of tree?

3. How many works is the person in Chapter 14 attempting to review?

4. In this story, Burma is a colony of what empire?

5. What was the substance of the second speaker's argument, in Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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