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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. Orwell worries that liberty cannot exist without what?
(a) Laws that protect the populace.
(b) Censorship of expression.
(c) Liberty of thought.
(d) Its opposite - oppression.
2. What does Orwell mean by the phrase "verbal false limbs"?
(a) Using an incorrect word in place of another.
(b) Adding unnecessary phrases to a sentence.
(c) Unnecessary prefixes and suffixes.
(d) Unnecessarily turning a word into a phrase.
3. How were the nurses in the hospital described?
(a) The hospital had no nurses, only a few overburdened doctors.
(b) Compassionate, but incompetent.
(c) Capable, but uncaring.
(d) Incapable and unsanitary.
4. What is the crowd's reaction to the prisoner's chant?
(a) They begin to feel some compassion for him.
(b) They want him to die quickly.
(c) They try to help him escape.
(d) It doesn't seem to have an effect on them.
5. Where do the magistrates and police convene after the prisoner's death?
(a) On the side of town opposite the gallows.
(b) They don't convene, they all go to their own homes.
(c) At the local tavern.
(d) Close to the location of the corpse.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator call the hospital?
2. How did the first speaker, in Chapter 8, feel about freedom of the press?
3. What similarity does Orwell find between the Catholic and Communist ideologies?
4. Of what religion is the prisoner in Chapter 2?
5. How many people were killed by the elephant while it was rampaging?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Orwell, what could the reader of "Gulliver's Travels" infer about Swift's political views?
2. What is the substance of Burnham's "Managerial Revolution", as relayed by Orwell in Chapter 9?
3. Who are the individuals that Orwell uses as examples in Chapter 13?
4. How does the elephant die?
5. How does Orwell feel about nonsense poetry?
6. Orwell wonders if entering the world of politics had what effect on Gandhi?
7. What pamphlet was the subject of the meeting of the P.E.N. Club that takes place in Chapter 8?
8. What flaws are shared by all of the examples of "bad English" that Orwell offers?
9. Based on Orwell's description, what is the life cycle of a toad?
10. What relationship exists between Orwell and the Burmese natives?
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