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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Orwell compare athletes to?
(a) Machines.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Automobiles.
(d) Chess pieces.

2. According to Orwell, what is not a popular subject in his essays?
(a) Spring.
(b) Animals.
(c) Politics.
(d) Christmas.

3. What is the most famous poem written by the poet mentioned in Chapter 17?
(a) "The Owl and the Pussycat".
(b) "Old Mother Hubbard".
(c) "The Cat's In the Cradle".
(d) "Hey Diddle Diddle".

4. In Orwell's opinion, what does Tolstoy do to the scenes he is presenting?
(a) He misunderstands them.
(b) He misquotes them.
(c) He takes them out of context.
(d) He distorts them.

5. Orwell feels that Swift, through "Gulliver's Travels", is attacking what sort of government structure?
(a) Oligarchy.
(b) Totalitarianism.
(c) Aristocracy.
(d) Democracy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 7, Orwell wonders if Gandhi was motivated by what vice?

3. Death, at the narrator's hospital, is personified by a patient who finds what activity difficult and painful?

4. How much did it cost to plant the garden Orwell describes in Chapter 13?

5. According to Orwell, how do international sporting events affect relations between countries?

(see the answer key)

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