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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what religion is the prisoner in Chapter 2?
(a) Buddhist.
(b) Christian.
(c) Hindu.
(d) Muslim.

2. What creature intervenes as the prisoner is being led to his execution?
(a) A scorpion.
(b) An elephant.
(c) A stray cat.
(d) A stray dog.

3. Orwell feels that Swift, through "Gulliver's Travels", is attacking what sort of government structure?
(a) Totalitarianism.
(b) Aristocracy.
(c) Oligarchy.
(d) Democracy.

4. Patients in the narrator's hospital are used for what?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Observation.
(c) Experimentation.
(d) None of the answers is correct.

5. Gulliver disapproves of what sort of knowledge, according to Orwell?
(a) Knowledge supported by insufficient evidence.
(b) Knowledge used only for practical purposes.
(c) Knowledge for its own sake.
(d) Abstract knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Orwell, how did Swift offend Queen Anne?

2. Why does Orwell dismiss Tolstoy's criticism?

3. How many people were killed by the elephant while it was rampaging?

4. How do the police and magistrates feel after the prisoner's death?

5. Death, at the narrator's hospital, is personified by a patient who finds what activity difficult and painful?

(see the answer key)

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