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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the elephant die?
(a) It dies quickly and painlessly.
(b) It kills two people before finally collapsing.
(c) It is shot twice but dies slowly.
(d) It doesn't die, it escapes.

3. According to Orwell, what were Smith's religious beliefs?
(a) Swift was a firm believer in the necessity of organized religion.
(b) He was not a religious man.
(c) Swift believed in a higher power, but rejected organized religions.
(d) Swift subscribed to his own form of spirituality.

4. What does Orwell say about Tolstoy's conversion?
(a) He was swayed by false prophets.
(b) He never converted; it was a rumor.
(c) He only exchanged one form of egotism for another.
(d) He did it to better his reputation, not because his belief was sincere.

5. What change has occurred for the narrator, in Chapter 3?
(a) He has been imprisoned.
(b) He has been demoted.
(c) He has gone from being the oppressor, to being the victim.
(d) He has been reassigned.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the prisoner going to be executed?

2. Which play did Tolstoy criticize most harshly?

3. Orwell feels that Swift, through "Gulliver's Travels", is attacking what sort of government structure?

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

5. How were the nurses in the hospital described?

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