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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the prisoner going to be executed?
(a) Firing squad.
(b) Stoning.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Lethal injection.

2. Where did the elephant come from?
(a) It was wild, and found its way into the town.
(b) It was released in the town by someone who wanted to destroy the bazaar.
(c) It had escaped from the zoo.
(d) It was domesticated.

3. Which play did Tolstoy criticize most harshly?
(a) "King Lear".
(b) "The Misanthrope".
(c) "Romeo and Juliet".
(d) "Dr. Faustus".

4. What do the doctors in the narrator's hospital do?
(a) Travel from one target patient to the next, ignoring the other patients who are suffering.
(b) Make the terminally ill patients as comfortable as possible.
(c) Triage the patients, starting with the most critically injured.
(d) Intervene in only the most critical situations.

5. Tolstoy accuses the playwright he is criticizing of having a philosophy similar to whom?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Caesar.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the prisoner behaving, as he is marching to his death?

2. How did the narrator leave the hospital?

3. How do the hospital staff sterilize their equipment between patients?

4. According to Gulliver, scientists should not concern themselves with what area of thought?

5. What does Orwell say about Tolstoy's conversion?

(see the answer key)

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