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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Orwell, how do international sporting events affect relations between countries?
(a) They make them worse.
(b) They make them better.
(c) They have no effect.
(d) They worsen relations between citizens, but improve relations between leaders.

2. What relationship does Orwell establish between social justice and nature?
(a) Nature is a blessing that can be enjoyed by everyone, regardless of the social injustices they endure.
(b) Nature can only be truly appreciated by those who are oppressed.
(c) Only the oppressors are free to truly appreciate the beauty of nature.
(d) There is no relationship between the two.

3. How does Orwell describe the ideal murderer, in a murder story?
(a) Eccentric.
(b) Arrogant.
(c) Pitiable.
(d) Calculating.

4. In "The Managerial Revolution", what does Burnham say about capitalism?
(a) That it is dying, and will be replaced with a socialist pyramid.
(b) That it will only survive if it changes to accommodate social classes.
(c) That it is alive and well.
(d) That it is dying, and will be replaced with communism.

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. How were the nurses in the hospital described?

2. How do the Burmese treat the narrator?

3. What is the point of Orwell's essay on the English language?

4. According to Orwell, what is the reason that people don't read?

5. Chapter 12 begins with a description of the life cycle of what animal?

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