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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What crucial element of Shakespeare's works does Tolstoy fail to recognize, according to Orwell?
(a) Shakespeare's status as a poet.
(b) The social commentary in Shakespeare's works.
(c) The fact that Shakespeare deliberately incorporated flaws into his work.
(d) Shakespeare's lack of education.

2. Why does the narrator hesitate to kill the elephant?
(a) It is a large and expensive piece of machinery.
(b) He doesn't want to lose face.
(c) He is afraid of the repercussions from the angry crowd.
(d) He feels compassion for it.

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

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

5. According to Orwell, how did Swift offend Queen Anne?
(a) By criticizing a law passed by Parliament.
(b) By writing a pamphlet that criticized dissenters from the church.
(c) By writing a satirical piece that made fun of the English government.
(d) By greeting her inappropriately when he met her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Orwell feel about Shakespeare?

2. What is the symbol of Gulliver's aging?

3. What does the creature do as the prisoner is being led to his execution?

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

5. Tolstoy wrote a biting criticism of what playwright's work?

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