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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were the nurses in the hospital described?
(a) Incapable and unsanitary.
(b) Compassionate, but incompetent.
(c) Capable, but uncaring.
(d) The hospital had no nurses, only a few overburdened doctors.

2. How does the elephant die?
(a) It dies quickly and painlessly.
(b) It doesn't die, it escapes.
(c) It is shot twice but dies slowly.
(d) It kills two people before finally collapsing.

3. What creature intervenes as the prisoner is being led to his execution?
(a) An elephant.
(b) A stray dog.
(c) A scorpion.
(d) A stray cat.

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

5. What two groups does Orwell name as an example of people for whom Satyagraha would be an ineffective political tool?
(a) The Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Russians under Stalin.
(b) The Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Burmese under the British Empire.
(c) The Kurds under Hussein, and the Jews in Nazi Germany.
(d) The Russians under Stalin, and the Italians under Mussolini.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orwell refer to as the era of great murder mystery literature?

2. How does Orwell feel about scientific words and foreign phrases?

3. Orwell worries that liberty cannot exist without what?

4. What aspect of "Gulliver's Travels" does Orwell discuss in Chapter 5?

5. In what stage of Tolstoy's life did this major change occur?

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