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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 Orwell feel about scientific words and foreign phrases?
(a) They are unnecessary, and should be replaced with common language.
(b) They can be used, but only when writing for a certain audience.
(c) They should be used whenever possible, to elevate writing.
(d) They should only be used in certain types of literature.

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 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 a socialist pyramid.

3. In what country is the narrator, in Chapter 3?
(a) France.
(b) Burma.
(c) Spain.
(d) England.

4. What do the doctors in the narrator's hospital do?
(a) Intervene in only the most critical situations.
(b) Travel from one target patient to the next, ignoring the other patients who are suffering.
(c) Triage the patients, starting with the most critically injured.
(d) Make the terminally ill patients as comfortable as possible.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Burnham say about the Nazis?

2. In this story, Burma is a colony of what empire?

3. What is the crowd's reaction to the prisoner's chant?

4. In Orwell's opinion, what does Tolstoy do to the scenes he is presenting?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens after the prisoner's death?

3. What is the meaning of "Satyagraha"?

4. What is Tolstoy's main target in his Shakespearean criticisms, and why?

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

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

7. What are some of the books that Orwell names as "Good Bad Books", and what flaw do they share?

8. What relationship exists between Orwell and the Burmese natives?

9. What link does Orwell establish between freedom of the press, and other forms of liberty?

10. What is the substance of Burnham's "Managerial Revolution", as relayed by Orwell in Chapter 9?

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