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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the elephant die?
(a) It kills two people before finally collapsing.
(b) It is shot twice but dies slowly.
(c) It dies quickly and painlessly.
(d) It doesn't die, it escapes.

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

3. How do the police and magistrates feel after the prisoner's death?
(a) Angry.
(b) Elated.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Guilty.

4. According to Orwell, literature is in danger from censorship, and what else?
(a) The corporate sponsorship of writers.
(b) The poor quality of public education.
(c) The lack of affordable higher education.
(d) A loss of interest in literature among young adults.

5. Death, at the narrator's hospital, is personified by a patient who finds what activity difficult and painful?
(a) Walking.
(b) Eating.
(c) Urinating.
(d) Bathing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orwell say is the sole purpose of a metaphor?

2. What relationship does Orwell establish between freedom for political writers, and non-political ones?

3. Overall, how does Orwell feel about "Gulliver's Travels"?

4. What does the narrator call the hospital?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of Tolstoy's criticisms about Shakespeare?

2. What does Orwell think of children's stories such as "Tom Sawyer"?

3. Who is the prisoner in Chapter 2?

4. What happens after the prisoner's death?

5. How are sporting events similar to combat, according to Orwell?

6. According to Orwell, what could the reader of "Gulliver's Travels" infer about Swift's political views?

7. How does the elephant die?

8. What is Orwell's occupation, in the first chapter?

9. How does Orwell describe the book reviewer in Chapter 14?

10. Orwell wonders if entering the world of politics had what effect on Gandhi?

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