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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Intervene in only the most critical situations.
(c) Make the terminally ill patients as comfortable as possible.
(d) Triage the patients, starting with the most critically injured.

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

3. How do the police and magistrates feel after the prisoner's death?
(a) Apathetic.
(b) Guilty.
(c) Angry.
(d) Elated.

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. According to Orwell, what word best describes Tolstoy's criticisms?
(a) Obsolete.
(b) Prejudiced.
(c) Indirect.
(d) Inconsistent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What crucial element of Shakespeare's works does Tolstoy fail to recognize, according to Orwell?

2. How is the Burmese jail described?

3. Which play did Tolstoy criticize most harshly?

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

5. What does the narrator call the hospital?

(see the answer key)

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