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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator call the hospital?
(a) "The Tomb."
(b) "Nurse Ratchet's wing."
(c) "L'hopital du mort."
(d) "Hopital X."

3. The third speaker, in Chapter 8, attacked what?
(a) The unnecessarily severe punishments for violating censorship laws.
(b) The inability of the government to police all media successfully.
(c) The government's choice to regulate news media.
(d) Laws that challenged obscenity in literary products.

4. What is in the prisoner's cell?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A cot and toilet.
(c) A bedroll.
(d) A plank bed and water pot.

5. How does Gulliver believe science should be used?
(a) To wield power over those who aren't educated.
(b) For practical applications, like technology, that improve the welfare of all.
(c) To prove that some religious beliefs are absurd.
(d) As a mental exercise.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Tolstoy wrote a biting criticism of what playwright's work?

3. What change has occurred for the narrator, in Chapter 3?

4. Tolstoy accuses the playwright he is criticizing of having a philosophy similar to whom?

5. Why does Orwell dismiss Tolstoy's criticism?

(see the answer key)

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