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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book does Orwell quote to support his argument against Satyagraha?
(a) "King Lear".
(b) "Gandhi and Stalin".
(c) "1984".
(d) "Gulliver's Travels".

2. In principle, with whom does the narrator side?
(a) The Burmese.
(b) The prisoners.
(c) The police.
(d) The British.

3. How is the prisoner going to be executed?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Stoning.
(c) Lethal injection.
(d) Firing squad.

4. Where do the magistrates and police convene after the prisoner's death?
(a) They don't convene, they all go to their own homes.
(b) On the side of town opposite the gallows.
(c) Close to the location of the corpse.
(d) At the local tavern.

5. According to Orwell, how does Gandhi compare to other politicians of his time?
(a) He left a remarkably "clean smell" behind.
(b) He didn't focus on the same issues.
(c) He accomplished much more.
(d) He didn't accomplish as much.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Orwell's problem with phrases like "swan song"?

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

3. In this story, Burma is a colony of what empire?

4. The narrator is a citizen of what country?

5. Death, at the narrator's hospital, is personified by a patient who finds what activity difficult and painful?

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