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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 admires Gandhi's pacifist methods of enacting change.
(d) He feels Gandhi's saintliness may have been sullied by his involvement in politics.

2. Gulliver disapproves of what sort of knowledge, according to Orwell?
(a) Knowledge supported by insufficient evidence.
(b) Knowledge for its own sake.
(c) Knowledge used only for practical purposes.
(d) Abstract knowledge.

3. What is the narrator's profession?
(a) Judge.
(b) Firefighter.
(c) Police officer.
(d) Doctor.

4. What has the elephant destroyed?
(a) A cart with vegetables in it.
(b) A.grove of trees, a hut, and a bicycle.
(c) A newsstand.
(d) A bamboo hut, some fruit stalls, and a rubbish van.

5. How does Orwell feel about Shakespeare?
(a) He admires what Shakespeare attempted, but dislikes his works.
(b) He loves his work, and has profound respect for him as an artist.
(c) He likes Shakespeare's characters, but not the plots of his plays.
(d) He likes Shakespeare, but realizes that there are flaws in his work.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do the doctors in the narrator's hospital do?

4. Orwell worries that liberty cannot exist without what?

5. The fourth speaker, in Chapter 8, defended the purges in what country?

(see the answer key)

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