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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the name of Gandhi's political policy, "Satyagraha," mean?
(a) "Belief in oneself."
(b) "Karma."
(c) "Strength in silence."
(d) "Firmness in truth."

2. What does Orwell mean by the phrase "verbal false limbs"?
(a) Unnecessarily turning a word into a phrase.
(b) Adding unnecessary phrases to a sentence.
(c) Using an incorrect word in place of another.
(d) Unnecessary prefixes and suffixes.

3. Tolstoy wrote a biting criticism of what playwright's work?
(a) Marlowe
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Molière.
(d) Aeschylus.

4. What does the narrator call the hospital?
(a) "L'hopital du mort."
(b) "The Tomb."
(c) "Nurse Ratchet's wing."
(d) "Hopital X."

5. According to Gulliver, scientists should not concern themselves with what area of thought?
(a) Politics.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Religion.
(d) Sociology.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the nurses in the hospital described?

2. How many people were killed by the elephant while it was rampaging?

3. What crucial element of Shakespeare's works does Tolstoy fail to recognize, according to Orwell?

4. Overall, how does Orwell feel about "Gulliver's Travels"?

5. How do the police and magistrates feel after the prisoner's death?

(see the answer key)

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