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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the crowd's reaction to the prisoner's chant?
(a) They want him to die quickly.
(b) They begin to feel some compassion for him.
(c) They try to help him escape.
(d) It doesn't seem to have an effect on them.

2. What change has occurred for the narrator, in Chapter 3?
(a) He has been demoted.
(b) He has gone from being the oppressor, to being the victim.
(c) He has been imprisoned.
(d) He has been reassigned.

3. How does Orwell describe Gandhi's political solutions?
(a) "Medievalist."
(b) "Godly."
(c) "Backwards."
(d) "Progressive."

4. Where is the narrator working?
(a) Australia.
(b) Burma.
(c) Japan.
(d) India.

5. In this story, Burma is a colony of what empire?
(a) The Russian Empire.
(b) The Japanese Empire.
(c) The American Empire.
(d) The British Empire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What helped to change Orwell's opinions of Gandhi?

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

4. According to Tolstoy, Shakespeare's great reputation was propagated by whom?

5. According to Orwell, what flaw is apparent in all of the examples of "bad English" that he presents in Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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