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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tolstoy accuses the playwright he is criticizing of having a philosophy similar to whom?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Napoleon.

2. How is the Burmese jail described?
(a) Spacious and institutional.
(b) Old and musty.
(c) Small and dank.
(d) Wet and unsanitary.

3. How did the first speaker, in Chapter 8, feel about freedom of the press?
(a) It was a good thing - in India.
(b) It would lead to the corruption, and ultimate demise, of the government.
(c) It was desirable, but not necessary.
(d) It was desirable, but the government had a right to censor its citizens.

4. What relationship does Orwell establish between freedom for political writers, and non-political ones?
(a) Freedom for political writers does not affect freedom for non-political ones.
(b) The two freedoms go hand in hand.
(c) Freedom for non-political writers does not affect freedom for political ones.
(d) Orwell doesn't establish a relationship between the two.

5. According to Orwell, what word best describes Tolstoy's criticisms?
(a) Inconsistent.
(b) Obsolete.
(c) Prejudiced.
(d) Indirect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orwell feel can help to reverse the downward trend of the English language?

2. According to Orwell, what do newspapers try to do when reporting on sports events?

3. To Orwell, freedom of the press means the liberty to do what?

4. What was the substance of the second speaker's argument, in Chapter 8?

5. Of what religion is the prisoner in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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