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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Orwell propose to aid the English language?
(a) To inject clear thinking into the process aiding readers in fundamental remedies.
(b) He does not think there is anything that can be done.
(c) To address the issue to teachers of the language.
(d) To appeal to writers of grammar books and dictionaries.

2. What is the symbol of Gulliver's aging?
(a) His cane.
(b) His arthritic hands.
(c) His spectacles.
(d) His hair, which is turning grey.

3. To Orwell, freedom of the press means the liberty to do what?
(a) Report anything, whether it is true or not.
(b) Put a spin on the story, as long as the facts are correct.
(c) Criticize and oppose.
(d) Express personal opinions.

4. How does Orwell feel about the English language?
(a) It is declining, and the trend is irreversible.
(b) It is neither improving nor declining.
(c) It is in decline, but can be saved.
(d) It is improving.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what religion is the prisoner in Chapter 2?

2. Where do the magistrates and police convene after the prisoner's death?

3. Gulliver disapproves of what sort of knowledge, according to Orwell?

4. What two groups does Orwell name as an example of people for whom Satyagraha would be an ineffective political tool?

5. In Chapter 7, Orwell wonders if Gandhi was motivated by what vice?

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