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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the animal discussed in Chapter 12 discern the sex of other members of its species?
(a) By the color of their skin.
(b) By the markings on their backs.
(c) By the length of their legs.
(d) By attempting to mate.

2. What do the doctors in the narrator's hospital do?
(a) Triage the patients, starting with the most critically injured.
(b) Make the terminally ill patients as comfortable as possible.
(c) Travel from one target patient to the next, ignoring the other patients who are suffering.
(d) Intervene in only the most critical situations.

3. How do the Burmese treat the narrator?
(a) They are respectful and grateful to him.
(b) They are openly violent at times.
(c) They are respectful to his face, but sneer at him behind his back.
(d) They harass and insult him whenever they can.

4. Gulliver disapproves of what sort of knowledge, according to Orwell?
(a) Abstract knowledge.
(b) Knowledge supported by insufficient evidence.
(c) Knowledge used only for practical purposes.
(d) Knowledge for its own sake.

5. Why does Orwell dislike words such as "constitute" and "phenomenon"?
(a) They are unnecessarily long.
(b) He feels that they are used to "dress up" concepts that could be expressed in plainer terms.
(c) They are used intentionally to elevate writing beyond the capability of the ordinary reader.
(d) They consolidate, into one word, what should be expressed with a phrase.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the prisoner begin to chant as he walks?

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

3. What does Orwell compare athletes to?

4. According to Orwell, what do newspapers try to do when reporting on sports events?

5. Burnham predicted that what nation would be victorious in World War II?

(see the answer key)

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