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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 Gandhi's involvement in politics?
(a) He feels that Gandhi didn't really accomplish much in his political career.
(b) He admires Gandhi's pacifist methods of enacting change.
(c) He feels that Gandhi's talents would have been wasted in any other field.
(d) He feels Gandhi's saintliness may have been sullied by his involvement in politics.

2. What does the narrator call the hospital?
(a) "L'hopital du mort."
(b) "Hopital X."
(c) "The Tomb."
(d) "Nurse Ratchet's wing."

3. What was the substance of the second speaker's argument, in Chapter 8?
(a) He argued that liberty was a good thing, in very specific circumstances.
(b) He argued that freedom of the press and freedom of speech are not necessarily the same.
(c) He felt liberty was a good thing, but spoke in a very general way.
(d) He argued against freedom of the press.

4. Burnham predicted that what nation would be victorious in World War II?
(a) Japan.
(b) Germany.
(c) Russia.
(d) England.

5. According to Orwell, what were Smith's religious beliefs?
(a) Swift believed in a higher power, but rejected organized religions.
(b) He was not a religious man.
(c) Swift subscribed to his own form of spirituality.
(d) Swift was a firm believer in the necessity of organized religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orwell compare to a "pre-fabricate hen-house"?

2. What book does Orwell quote to support his argument against Satyagraha?

3. What does Burnham write about the atrocities Stalin committed?

4. What is the narrator's profession?

5. According to Orwell, what word best describes Tolstoy's criticisms?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Orwell respond to the critics of his spring essays?

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

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

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

8. What type of children's literature does Orwell prefer?

9. What treatments does Orwell undergo in Hopital X?

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

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