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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. The third speaker, in Chapter 8, attacked what?
(a) The unnecessarily severe punishments for violating censorship laws.
(b) Laws that challenged obscenity in literary products.
(c) The government's choice to regulate news media.
(d) The inability of the government to police all media successfully.

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

3. What two groups does Orwell name as an example of people for whom Satyagraha would be an ineffective political tool?
(a) The Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Burmese under the British Empire.
(b) The Kurds under Hussein, and the Jews in Nazi Germany.
(c) The Russians under Stalin, and the Italians under Mussolini.
(d) The Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Russians under Stalin.

4. What does the creature do as the prisoner is being led to his execution?
(a) Rampages through the crowd of spectators.
(b) Bites the executioner.
(c) Stings the attending guard.
(d) Jumps up and tries to lick the prisoner's face.

5. Why does Orwell dismiss Tolstoy's criticism?
(a) It is impossible to prove.
(b) Orwell doesn't think highly of Tolstoy's writings.
(c) Tolstoy was prejudiced against the English.
(d) Tolstoy wasn't educated enough to write well-informed criticisms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator is a citizen of what country?

3. How is the Burmese jail described?

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

5. How many people were killed by the elephant while it was rampaging?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Orwell say about Burnham's theory about Stalin?

3. What are Orwell's criteria for a "perfect" murder?

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

5. What event in "Gulliver's Travels", according to Orwell, showed a link between Swift and his character, Gulliver?

6. What does Orwell say about the sanitation of Hopital X?

7. According to Orwell, what changes occur in the character of Gulliver, in each part of "Gulliver's Travels"?

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

9. Whom does Orwell name in Chapter 17 as a well-known nonsense poet?

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

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