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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 Gulliver, scientists should not concern themselves with what area of thought?
(a) Politics.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Religion.
(d) Sociology.

2. Death, at the narrator's hospital, is personified by a patient who finds what activity difficult and painful?
(a) Urinating.
(b) Walking.
(c) Bathing.
(d) Eating.

3. Why does the narrator eventually shoot the elephant?
(a) Because it is his job.
(b) The angry crowd doesn't really give him a choice.
(c) Because he wants to collect the reward.
(d) Because he doesn't want anyone else to get hurt.

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

5. Why does Orwell dismiss Tolstoy's criticism?
(a) Orwell doesn't think highly of Tolstoy's writings.
(b) It is impossible to prove.
(c) Tolstoy was prejudiced against the English.
(d) Tolstoy wasn't educated enough to write well-informed criticisms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of bath does the hospital staff give the narrator?

2. Of what religion is the prisoner in Chapter 2?

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

4. What change has occurred for the narrator, in Chapter 3?

5. How is the prisoner behaving, as he is marching to his death?

(see the answer key)

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