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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Orwell, what is the primary purpose of language?
(a) Expanding knowledge.
(b) Straightforward communication.
(c) Evoking feeling.
(d) Beauty.

3. According to Orwell, what is the basis for Burnham's political predictions?
(a) Psychic visions.
(b) Statistical analysis.
(c) Current political trends.
(d) Historical data.

4. The fourth speaker, in Chapter 8, defended the purges in what country?
(a) Israel.
(b) Italy.
(c) Pakistan.
(d) Russia.

5. What does Orwell suggest as an act of contrition for someone who has committed a sin?
(a) Planting a tree.
(b) Confessing to a priest.
(c) Volunteerism.
(d) Working to right their wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Thibaw's legacy in Mandalay?

2. Orwell states that books are the least expensive media pleasures, next to what?

3. How do the hospital staff sterilize their equipment between patients?

4. What is the subject of Gulliver's ranting in the second book of "Gulliver's Travels"?

5. What is the narrator's profession?

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