Shooting an Elephant Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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Shooting an Elephant Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the doctors in the narrator's hospital do?
(a) Make the terminally ill patients as comfortable as possible.
(b) Triage the patients, starting with the most critically injured.
(c) Intervene in only the most critical situations.
(d) Travel from one target patient to the next, ignoring the other patients who are suffering.

2. What helped to change Orwell's opinions of Gandhi?
(a) News stories about Gandhi.
(b) Meeting Gandhi.
(c) The opinion of someone who knew Gandhi personally.
(d) Gandhi's autobiography.

3. How did Gandhi feel about Satyagraha?
(a) He believed in it, but was aware of its limitations.
(b) He did not really believe in it, but professed it because otherwise his followers would resort to drastic measures.
(c) He did not believe in it, but professed it because it attracted a certain kind of person to be his follower.
(d) He believed that people who utilized Satyagraha could accomplish anything.

4. According to Orwell, how did Swift offend Queen Anne?
(a) By greeting her inappropriately when he met her.
(b) By writing a satirical piece that made fun of the English government.
(c) By criticizing a law passed by Parliament.
(d) By writing a pamphlet that criticized dissenters from the church.

5. Overall, how does Orwell feel about "Gulliver's Travels"?
(a) He likes the books, and has reread them many times.
(b) He understands, and sympathizes with, Swift's message, but thinks the books are poorly executed.
(c) He is bored by them, and doesn't understand people's fascination with the story.
(d) He feels that the books have an important message, but are poorly executed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orwell compare to a "pre-fabricate hen-house"?

2. In what stage of Tolstoy's life did this major change occur?

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

4. Why is Orwell skeptical of Gandhi's celibacy and vegetarianism?

5. What two groups does Orwell name as an example of people for whom Satyagraha would be an ineffective political tool?

(see the answer key)

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