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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the prisoner behaving, as he is marching to his death?
(a) He quietly attempts to bribe the guard.
(b) He walks with dignity.
(c) He begs for mercy.
(d) He tries to attack his guards and escape.

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

3. What is Orwell's problem with phrases like "swan song"?
(a) It is an overused cliché.
(b) It makes use of alliteration.
(c) It is a dying metaphor.
(d) It anthropomorphizes a non-human entity.

4. What helped to change Orwell's opinions of Gandhi?
(a) News stories about Gandhi.
(b) Gandhi's autobiography.
(c) The opinion of someone who knew Gandhi personally.
(d) Meeting Gandhi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which play did Tolstoy criticize most harshly?

2. What is in the prisoner's cell?

3. What book does Orwell quote to support his argument against Satyagraha?

4. How is the Burmese jail described?

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

(see the answer key)

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