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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the symbol of Gulliver's aging?
(a) His hair, which is turning grey.
(b) His cane.
(c) His spectacles.
(d) His arthritic hands.

3. Tolstoy accuses the playwright he is criticizing of having a philosophy similar to whom?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Machiavelli.

4. In what stage of Tolstoy's life did this major change occur?
(a) Middle age.
(b) Old age.
(c) Youth.
(d) Young adulthood.

5. Why does Orwell dismiss Tolstoy's criticism?
(a) Orwell doesn't think highly of Tolstoy's writings.
(b) Tolstoy wasn't educated enough to write well-informed criticisms.
(c) It is impossible to prove.
(d) Tolstoy was prejudiced against the English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What change has occurred for the narrator, in Chapter 3?

2. What does Burnham say about the Nazis?

3. According to Orwell, what is not a popular subject in his essays?

4. How does Orwell feel about people bonding through sports?

5. According to Burnham, what is the most important factor for class mobility, in the society he envisions?

(see the answer key)

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