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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Of what religion is the prisoner in Chapter 2?
(a) Christian.
(b) Hindu.
(c) Buddhist.
(d) Muslim.

5. What change has occurred for the narrator, in Chapter 3?
(a) He has gone from being the oppressor, to being the victim.
(b) He has been reassigned.
(c) He has been imprisoned.
(d) He has been demoted.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the narrator leave the hospital?

2. How is the prisoner going to be executed?

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

4. In this story, Burma is a colony of what empire?

5. Why does the narrator eventually shoot the elephant?

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