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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the narrator leave the hospital?
(a) He fled before his time was up, and without an official discharge.
(b) He transferred to another hospital, to be under the care of his own doctor.
(c) Once his condition was stable, he was moved to another facility.
(d) He left fully recovered with a doctor's discharge.

2. According to Orwell, what ideal is at stake in international sports competitions?
(a) Prestige.
(b) Sportsmanship.
(c) Skill.
(d) Fairness.

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

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

5. What does Burnham say about the Nazis?
(a) They may have been monsters in a different era, but in this one, they were fine.
(b) They were monsters.
(c) They were good soldiers, with corrupt leadership.
(d) They were well intended, but misguided.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orwell say about Tolstoy's conversion?

2. What does Orwell refer to as the era of great murder mystery literature?

3. Of what religion is the prisoner in Chapter 2?

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

5. How is the prisoner behaving, as he is marching to his death?

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