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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illness does the narrator have, in Chapter 3?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Pneumonia.

2. In Orwell's ideal world, how would the quality of each work be reflected in its reviews?
(a) Good works would get long, detailed reviews; poor ones would get only a few lines.
(b) Only the good works would be reviewed, so that people could seek them out.
(c) Only the poor works would be reviewed, so that people could avoid them.
(d) All works would receive equal treatment.

3. According to Orwell, why might athletes try to cheat?
(a) They don't always understand the rules.
(b) They are afraid of losing their contracts.
(c) They think it is the only way they will win.
(d) They feel they are being discriminated against.

4. According to Orwell, what is the reason that people don't read?
(a) The plots of most books are boring.
(b) Books are too expensive.
(c) They would rather go to movies, to pubs, or watch dog racing.
(d) Reading a book takes too much effort.

5. Patients in the narrator's hospital are used for what?
(a) Observation.
(b) Teaching.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Experimentation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did it cost to plant the garden Orwell describes in Chapter 13?

2. How were the nurses in the hospital described?

3. Orwell says, in Chapter 12, that he has occasionally found what in summer?

4. How is the prisoner behaving, as he is marching to his death?

5. According to Orwell, what were Smith's religious beliefs?

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