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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. In what stage of Tolstoy's life did this major change occur?
(a) Youth.
(b) Middle age.
(c) Old age.
(d) Young adulthood.

2. According to Tolstoy, Shakespeare's great reputation was propagated by whom?
(a) American writers.
(b) Italian scholars.
(c) English noblemen.
(d) German professors.

3. What has the elephant destroyed?
(a) A bamboo hut, some fruit stalls, and a rubbish van.
(b) A cart with vegetables in it.
(c) A newsstand.
(d) A.grove of trees, a hut, and a bicycle.

4. What does Orwell feel can help to reverse the downward trend of the English language?
(a) Caring more.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Better education.
(d) Nothing.

5. Burnham was influenced by what political writer?
(a) Immanuel Kant.
(b) Gandhi.
(c) Thomas Aquinas.
(d) Machiavelli.

Short Answer Questions

1. The third speaker, in Chapter 8, attacked what?

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

3. How do the police and magistrates feel after the prisoner's death?

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

5. How does Gulliver believe science should be used?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What flaws are shared by all of the examples of "bad English" that Orwell offers?

4. What is Orwell's problem with the use of words like "romantic" or "vitality"?

5. What does Orwell say about the general trend of the English language?

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

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

8. What happens after the prisoner's death?

9. In what manner does Orwell leave Hopital X?

10. How does Orwell prove his theory about the lack of good murder literature?

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