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

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

3. How do the hospital staff sterilize their equipment between patients?
(a) They dip the tools in rubbing alcohol.
(b) They don't.
(c) They use an autoclave.
(d) They boil the tools.

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

5. What is the narrator's profession?
(a) Judge.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Police officer.
(d) Firefighter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Orwell feel about Shakespeare?

2. Patients in the narrator's hospital are used for what?

3. Overall, how does Orwell feel about "Gulliver's Travels"?

4. Where do the magistrates and police convene after the prisoner's death?

5. How did the narrator leave the hospital?

(see the answer key)

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