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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the magistrates and police do after the prisoner's death?
(a) Drink.
(b) Go back to work.
(c) Pray.
(d) Sleep.

2. What book does Orwell quote to support his argument against Satyagraha?
(a) "1984".
(b) "King Lear".
(c) "Gulliver's Travels".
(d) "Gandhi and Stalin".

3. According to Burnham, what place do workers occupy in the new socialist structure?
(a) They are somewhere in the middle of the pyramid.
(b) They are near the top of the pyramid.
(c) They are semi-slaves, who are at the bottom of the pyramid.
(d) Burnham does not discuss the socialist position of workers, only managers.

4. What is the narrator's profession?
(a) Judge.
(b) Police officer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Firefighter.

5. What does Burnham write about the atrocities Stalin committed?
(a) The world wasn't aware of anything Stalin did until after he died.
(b) The things he did were so outrageous that the rest of the world was inclined to believe his reasons for doing so.
(c) The world believed Stalin because he gave just enough evidence to back up his claims.
(d) The world knew Stalin was crazy, but couldn't do anything to stop him.

Short Answer Questions

1. The fourth speaker, in Chapter 8, defended the purges in what country?

2. How does Gulliver believe science should be used?

3. What does the prisoner begin to chant as he walks?

4. What is the name of John Milton's pamphlet that Orwell mentions in Chapter 8?

5. What change has occurred for the narrator, in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Orwell feels that international sporting events have what effect on the relations between the countries involved?

2. How does Orwell respond to Tolstoy's criticisms of Shakespeare?

3. How does Orwell prove his theory about the lack of good murder literature?

4. What does Orwell say about Burnham's theory about Stalin?

5. What does Orwell say about Gandhi's methods of non-violent protest?

6. What is Orwell's problem with the use of words like "romantic" or "vitality"?

7. What is Orwell's overall intention, according to his statements at the end of Chapter 6?

8. What are some of Tolstoy's criticisms about Shakespeare?

9. Orwell cites the riots after the 1936 Olympic Games as proof of what?

10. What relationship exists between Orwell and the Burmese natives?

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