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

2. What book does Orwell quote to support his argument against Satyagraha?
(a) "King Lear".
(b) "1984".
(c) "Gandhi and Stalin".
(d) "Gulliver's Travels".

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

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

5. How did Gandhi feel about Satyagraha?
(a) He believed that people who utilized Satyagraha could accomplish anything.
(b) He did not really believe in it, but professed it because otherwise his followers would resort to drastic measures.
(c) He believed in it, but was aware of its limitations.
(d) He did not believe in it, but professed it because it attracted a certain kind of person to be his follower.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two groups does Orwell name as an example of people for whom Satyagraha would be an ineffective political tool?

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

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

4. Burnham was influenced by what political writer?

5. What was the substance of the second speaker's argument, in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What happens as the prisoner is being led to his fate?

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

8. Based on Orwell's description, what is the life cycle of a toad?

9. What scene does Orwell describe as the setting for reading a good murder mystery?

10. What is the meaning of "Satyagraha"?

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