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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Orwell, what is the basis for Burnham's political predictions?
(a) Statistical analysis.
(b) Current political trends.
(c) Historical data.
(d) Psychic visions.

2. How does Orwell feel about Burnham, and his methods of prophesying?
(a) His prophecies are based on good evidence, but they are misinterpreted.
(b) He has good intentions, but is misguided.
(c) He is a con artist.
(d) He is cowardly, and mentally imbalanced.

3. Burnham predicted that what nation would be victorious in World War II?
(a) England.
(b) Japan.
(c) Germany.
(d) Russia.

4. Where is the narrator working?
(a) Australia.
(b) Burma.
(c) India.
(d) Japan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator call the hospital?

2. What was the substance of the second speaker's argument, in Chapter 8?

3. What does Burnham say about the Nazis?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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