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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in the prisoner's cell?
(a) A plank bed and water pot.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A cot and toilet.
(d) A bedroll.

2. In principle, with whom does the narrator side?
(a) The British.
(b) The prisoners.
(c) The police.
(d) The Burmese.

3. 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) Stings the attending guard.
(d) Jumps up and tries to lick the prisoner's face.

4. What sort of bath does the hospital staff give the narrator?
(a) They put him in five inches of warm water.
(b) They swab his body with warm damp towels.
(c) They put him in a lukewarm bath.
(d) They hand him a bucket of cold water and a washcloth for him to bathe with.

5. What is the crowd's reaction to the prisoner's chant?
(a) It doesn't seem to have an effect on them.
(b) They try to help him escape.
(c) They begin to feel some compassion for him.
(d) They want him to die quickly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the hospital staff sterilize their equipment between patients?

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

3. How did the narrator leave the hospital?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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