Round 6: Tossup 8

Description acceptable. George Orwell reads this group’s use of “exhortation” as showing pacificism’s totalitarian tendency in the essay “Politics vs. Literature.” A general assembly of this group argues for exterminating a most “filthy, noisome, and deformed” species of animal, leading another to instead argue for the novel technique of castration. A character whom the narrator calls “my master” teaches him this group’s language, (10[1])which is similar to High Dutch and lacks a word for “falsehood.” After being banished by this group, that narrator (10[1])fashions a canoe out of skin (-5[1])and finds himself unable to stand the smell of his wife. (10[1]-5[3])This group bases its society on reason (10[1])and disdains fighting over “shining stones,” unlike the brutish Yahoos. (10[1]-5[2])For 10 points, (10[2])what intelligent (-5[1])quadripeds (10[1]-5[1])are visited (10[2])in the final voyage of a satire (10[1])by Jonathan Swift? ■END■ (10[6]0[5])

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