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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Orwell's reasoning for the shifts in Gulliver's character?
(a) Swift identified with Gulliver.
(b) Gulliver represented four different people that Swift knew.
(c) Swift wanted a clear demarcation between each part of the story.
(d) Gulliver had multiple personality disorder.

2. What creature intervenes as the prisoner is being led to his execution?
(a) A scorpion.
(b) A stray dog.
(c) An elephant.
(d) A stray cat.

3. Patients in the narrator's hospital are used for what?
(a) Experimentation.
(b) Teaching.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Observation.

4. 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.

5. What does Orwell feel can help to reverse the downward trend of the English language?
(a) Better education.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Caring more.
(d) Common sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, Orwell wonders if Gandhi was motivated by what vice?

2. Which play did Tolstoy criticize most harshly?

3. How does Orwell describe Gandhi's political solutions?

4. What similarity does Orwell find between the Catholic and Communist ideologies?

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

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