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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do the Burmese treat the narrator?
(a) They are respectful to his face, but sneer at him behind his back.
(b) They harass and insult him whenever they can.
(c) They are openly violent at times.
(d) They are respectful and grateful to him.

3. In principle, with whom does the narrator side?
(a) The police.
(b) The prisoners.
(c) The Burmese.
(d) The British.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do the magistrates and police convene after the prisoner's death?

3. How were the nurses in the hospital described?

4. What treatment is described as a spectator sport on the ward?

5. What is the narrator's profession?

(see the answer key)

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