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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator call the hospital?
(a) "Hopital X."
(b) "Nurse Ratchet's wing."
(c) "The Tomb."
(d) "L'hopital du mort."

2. What has the elephant destroyed?
(a) A newsstand.
(b) A bamboo hut, some fruit stalls, and a rubbish van.
(c) A.grove of trees, a hut, and a bicycle.
(d) A cart with vegetables in it.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What treatment is described as a spectator sport on the ward?

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

3. What illness does the narrator have, in Chapter 3?

4. Where did the elephant come from?

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

(see the answer key)

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