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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What relationship does Orwell establish between freedom for political writers, and non-political ones?
(a) Orwell doesn't establish a relationship between the two.
(b) The two freedoms go hand in hand.
(c) Freedom for non-political writers does not affect freedom for political ones.
(d) Freedom for political writers does not affect freedom for non-political ones.

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

3. Of what religion is the prisoner in Chapter 2?
(a) Christian.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Hindu.
(d) Buddhist.

4. What does Orwell compare to a "pre-fabricate hen-house"?
(a) Poorly thought-out paragraphs.
(b) Stories with poorly fleshed-out characters.
(c) Sentences made of clichéd phrases.
(d) Works written by more than one author.

5. Orwell worries that liberty cannot exist without what?
(a) Its opposite - oppression.
(b) Liberty of thought.
(c) Censorship of expression.
(d) Laws that protect the populace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Orwell feel about Gandhi's involvement in politics?

2. In what country is the narrator, in Chapter 3?

3. Why does the narrator eventually shoot the elephant?

4. How does Gulliver believe science should be used?

5. What is Orwell's reasoning for the shifts in Gulliver's character?

(see the answer key)

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