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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 feel about Gandhi's involvement in politics?
(a) He feels that Gandhi didn't really accomplish much in his political career.
(b) He feels that Gandhi's talents would have been wasted in any other field.
(c) He feels Gandhi's saintliness may have been sullied by his involvement in politics.
(d) He admires Gandhi's pacifist methods of enacting change.

2. What does Orwell feel can help to reverse the downward trend of the English language?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Better education.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Caring more.

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

4. Why does Orwell dismiss Tolstoy's criticism?
(a) Tolstoy was prejudiced against the English.
(b) Tolstoy wasn't educated enough to write well-informed criticisms.
(c) Orwell doesn't think highly of Tolstoy's writings.
(d) It is impossible to prove.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What creature intervenes as the prisoner is being led to his execution?

2. How does Orwell feel about Shakespeare?

3. What did the name of Gandhi's political policy, "Satyagraha," mean?

4. How is the Burmese jail described?

5. How is the prisoner going to be executed?

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