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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. According to Orwell, what is the primary purpose of language?
(a) Straightforward communication.
(b) Expanding knowledge.
(c) Evoking feeling.
(d) Beauty.

2. Gulliver disapproves of what sort of knowledge, according to Orwell?
(a) Abstract knowledge.
(b) Knowledge supported by insufficient evidence.
(c) Knowledge used only for practical purposes.
(d) Knowledge for its own sake.

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

4. How many people were killed by the elephant while it was rampaging?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) None.

5. What helped to change Orwell's opinions of Gandhi?
(a) The opinion of someone who knew Gandhi personally.
(b) Gandhi's autobiography.
(c) News stories about Gandhi.
(d) Meeting Gandhi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tolstoy accuses the playwright he is criticizing of having a philosophy similar to whom?

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

3. What has the elephant destroyed?

4. The fourth speaker, in Chapter 8, defended the purges in what country?

5. How does Orwell feel about Gandhi's policy of non-violent protest?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Orwell's situation been reversed in Chapter 3?

2. According to Orwell, why don't people read?

3. According to Orwell, what is the reason for the dearth of good contemporary murder literature?

4. What does Orwell say about Gandhi's methods of non-violent protest?

5. According to Orwell, what were Burnham's political predictions based on?

6. How does Orwell feel about nonsense poetry?

7. Orwell feels that international sporting events have what effect on the relations between the countries involved?

8. Who are the individuals that Orwell uses as examples in Chapter 13?

9. What is Orwell's opinion about book reviews?

10. According to the evidence Orwell presents from "Gulliver's Travels", how does Gulliver feel about science?

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