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

2. How does Orwell propose to aid the English language?
(a) He does not think there is anything that can be done.
(b) To appeal to writers of grammar books and dictionaries.
(c) To address the issue to teachers of the language.
(d) To inject clear thinking into the process aiding readers in fundamental remedies.

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

4. In principle, with whom does the narrator side?
(a) The prisoners.
(b) The British.
(c) The Burmese.
(d) The police.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Orwell feels that Swift, through "Gulliver's Travels", is attacking what sort of government structure?

2. What helped to change Orwell's opinions of Gandhi?

3. How does Orwell feel about scientific words and foreign phrases?

4. According to Orwell, what word best describes Tolstoy's criticisms?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as the prisoner is being led to his fate?

2. What happens after the prisoner's death?

3. How does Orwell describe the book reviewer in Chapter 14?

4. Whom does Orwell name in Chapter 17 as a well-known nonsense poet?

5. How does Orwell describe the prisoner?

6. What effect does Gandhi's autobiography have on Orwell?

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

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

9. Who are the individuals that Orwell uses as examples in Chapter 13?

10. What event in "Gulliver's Travels", according to Orwell, showed a link between Swift and his character, Gulliver?

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