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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the doctors in the narrator's hospital do?
(a) Travel from one target patient to the next, ignoring the other patients who are suffering.
(b) Triage the patients, starting with the most critically injured.
(c) Intervene in only the most critical situations.
(d) Make the terminally ill patients as comfortable as possible.

2. How do the Burmese treat the narrator?
(a) They harass and insult him whenever they can.
(b) They are respectful to his face, but sneer at him behind his back.
(c) They are respectful and grateful to him.
(d) They are openly violent at times.

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

4. How is the prisoner going to be executed?
(a) Firing squad.
(b) Stoning.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Lethal injection.

5. The narrator is a citizen of what country?
(a) Australia.
(b) India.
(c) Burma.
(d) Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the elephant come from?

2. What is in the prisoner's cell?

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

4. How were the nurses in the hospital described?

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

(see the answer key)

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