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

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

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

4. How does Orwell feel about the quality of contemporary murder literature?
(a) It is poor.
(b) It is poor, but improving.
(c) It is good.
(d) It is good, but declining.

5. How does Orwell feel about books?
(a) He laments the prioritization of the people who don't read.
(b) He prefers movies, unless he finds a really good book that can be read again and again.
(c) He enjoys reading, but wishes that books were cheaper.
(d) He prefers reading to most activities, but understands why other people might not.