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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the elephant come from?
(a) It was wild, and found its way into the town.
(b) It was released in the town by someone who wanted to destroy the bazaar.
(c) It had escaped from the zoo.
(d) It was domesticated.

2. What do the magistrates and police do after the prisoner's death?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Go back to work.
(c) Drink.
(d) Pray.

3. In what country is the narrator, in Chapter 3?
(a) Burma.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) England.

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

5. In this story, Burma is a colony of what empire?
(a) The Japanese Empire.
(b) The Russian Empire.
(c) The American Empire.
(d) The British Empire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Tolstoy, Shakespeare's great reputation was propagated by whom?

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

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

5. How do the Burmese treat the narrator?

(see the answer key)

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