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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the hospital staff sterilize their equipment between patients?
(a) They don't.
(b) They boil the tools.
(c) They use an autoclave.
(d) They dip the tools in rubbing alcohol.

2. According to Orwell, what was Gandhi's youth like?
(a) He was the same as he was in adult life.
(b) He didn't care about politics, and was pro-war.
(c) He was a criminal, and committed many sins.
(d) He committed small sins.

3. How does Orwell feel about Gandhi's policy of non-violent protest?
(a) It can be effective, but only in some circumstances.
(b) It is ineffective, and unsuitable for the modern world.
(c) He agrees wholeheartedly with Gandhi's policy.
(d) It is effective in most circumstances, but not all.

4. Overall, how does Orwell feel about "Gulliver's Travels"?
(a) He feels that the books have an important message, but are poorly executed.
(b) He likes the books, and has reread them many times.
(c) He understands, and sympathizes with, Swift's message, but thinks the books are poorly executed.
(d) He is bored by them, and doesn't understand people's fascination with the story.

5. How did the first speaker, in Chapter 8, feel about freedom of the press?
(a) It was desirable, but not necessary.
(b) It was desirable, but the government had a right to censor its citizens.
(c) It was a good thing - in India.
(d) It would lead to the corruption, and ultimate demise, of the government.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Orwell, literature is in danger from censorship, and what else?

2. How did Gandhi feel about Satyagraha?

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

4. What does Orwell feel can help to reverse the downward trend of the English language?

5. Orwell worries that liberty cannot exist without what?

(see the answer key)

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