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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Burnham say about the Nazis?
(a) They were well intended, but misguided.
(b) They may have been monsters in a different era, but in this one, they were fine.
(c) They were monsters.
(d) They were good soldiers, with corrupt leadership.

2. How do the police and magistrates feel after the prisoner's death?
(a) Apathetic.
(b) Angry.
(c) Guilty.
(d) Elated.

3. Burnham was influenced by what political writer?
(a) Thomas Aquinas.
(b) Machiavelli.
(c) Immanuel Kant.
(d) Gandhi.

4. What has the elephant destroyed?
(a) A bamboo hut, some fruit stalls, and a rubbish van.
(b) A cart with vegetables in it.
(c) A.grove of trees, a hut, and a bicycle.
(d) A newsstand.

5. How much does Orwell think the managerial revolution, which Burnham writes about, has influenced the United States?
(a) Some.
(b) A lot.
(c) Very little.
(d) Not at all.

6. What does Orwell mean by the phrase "verbal false limbs"?
(a) Using an incorrect word in place of another.
(b) Unnecessary prefixes and suffixes.
(c) Unnecessarily turning a word into a phrase.
(d) Adding unnecessary phrases to a sentence.

7. According to Orwell, what word best describes Tolstoy's criticisms?
(a) Obsolete.
(b) Prejudiced.
(c) Indirect.
(d) Inconsistent.

8. What does the prisoner begin to chant as he walks?
(a) Nonsense words.
(b) A Hindu prayer for salvation.
(c) The name of the god, Ram.
(d) The names of his family members.

9. What creature intervenes as the prisoner is being led to his execution?
(a) A scorpion.
(b) A stray dog.
(c) A stray cat.
(d) An elephant.

10. Of what religion is the prisoner in Chapter 2?
(a) Hindu.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Buddhist.
(d) Christian.

11. What change has occurred for the narrator, in Chapter 3?
(a) He has been demoted.
(b) He has gone from being the oppressor, to being the victim.
(c) He has been imprisoned.
(d) He has been reassigned.

12. How did the first speaker, in Chapter 8, feel about freedom of the press?
(a) It was desirable, but not necessary.
(b) It was desirable, but the government had a right to censor its citizens.
(c) It would lead to the corruption, and ultimate demise, of the government.
(d) It was a good thing - in India.

13. How does Orwell feel about the English language?
(a) It is in decline, but can be saved.
(b) It is declining, and the trend is irreversible.
(c) It is improving.
(d) It is neither improving nor declining.

14. In "The Managerial Revolution", what does Burnham say about capitalism?
(a) That it is dying, and will be replaced with communism.
(b) That it will only survive if it changes to accommodate social classes.
(c) That it is dying, and will be replaced with a socialist pyramid.
(d) That it is alive and well.

15. Death, at the narrator's hospital, is personified by a patient who finds what activity difficult and painful?
(a) Urinating.
(b) Bathing.
(c) Eating.
(d) Walking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What treatment is described as a spectator sport on the ward?

2. How does Orwell describe Gandhi's political solutions?

3. What does the creature do as the prisoner is being led to his execution?

4. Where is the narrator working?

5. Patients in the narrator's hospital are used for what?

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