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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illness does the narrator have, in Chapter 3?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Scarlet fever.

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

3. Why does the narrator hesitate to kill the elephant?
(a) It is a large and expensive piece of machinery.
(b) He is afraid of the repercussions from the angry crowd.
(c) He doesn't want to lose face.
(d) He feels compassion for it.

4. How does the elephant die?
(a) It is shot twice but dies slowly.
(b) It doesn't die, it escapes.
(c) It dies quickly and painlessly.
(d) It kills two people before finally collapsing.

5. What does the creature do as the prisoner is being led to his execution?
(a) Rampages through the crowd of spectators.
(b) Stings the attending guard.
(c) Jumps up and tries to lick the prisoner's face.
(d) Bites the executioner.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Death, at the narrator's hospital, is personified by a patient who finds what activity difficult and painful?

3. What do the magistrates and police do after the prisoner's death?

4. How do the police and magistrates feel after the prisoner's death?

5. What do the doctors in the narrator's hospital do?

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