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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Orwell, what are the feelings between two teams in a sporting event?
(a) Hospitality.
(b) Ill-will.
(c) Sportsmanship.
(d) Friendliness.

2. According to Burnham, what place do workers occupy in the new socialist structure?
(a) They are somewhere in the middle of the pyramid.
(b) Burnham does not discuss the socialist position of workers, only managers.
(c) They are semi-slaves, who are at the bottom of the pyramid.
(d) They are near the top of the pyramid.

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

4. According to Orwell, how would reviews be handled in an ideal world?
(a) There wouldn't be any reviews.
(b) The number of works being reviewed would be greatly restricted.
(c) More people would write reviews, so that each reviewer wouldn't have to do as much work.
(d) Ordinary people would write reviews and share them with one another.

5. What does Orwell cite as a reason for the quality of contemporary murder literature?
(a) There are currently no good writers.
(b) People aren't interested in reading it.
(c) Crimes are becoming less memorable.
(d) The government is censoring it too much.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator call the hospital?

2. What did the name of Gandhi's political policy, "Satyagraha," mean?

3. According to Orwell, what is the basis for Burnham's political predictions?

4. According to Burnham, what is the most important factor for class mobility, in the society he envisions?

5. Why does Orwell dislike words such as "constitute" and "phenomenon"?

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