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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were the nurses in the hospital described?
(a) Capable, but uncaring.
(b) Compassionate, but incompetent.
(c) Incapable and unsanitary.
(d) The hospital had no nurses, only a few overburdened doctors.

2. According to Tolstoy, Shakespeare's great reputation was propagated by whom?
(a) German professors.
(b) English noblemen.
(c) American writers.
(d) Italian scholars.

3. What is the symbol of Gulliver's aging?
(a) His spectacles.
(b) His arthritic hands.
(c) His hair, which is turning grey.
(d) His cane.

4. What is in the prisoner's cell?
(a) A bedroll.
(b) A plank bed and water pot.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A cot and toilet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the prisoner going to be executed?

2. How does Orwell feel about Shakespeare?

3. What is Orwell's reasoning for the shifts in Gulliver's character?

4. Why does the narrator hesitate to kill the elephant?

5. What does the prisoner begin to chant as he walks?

(see the answer key)

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