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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the narrator working?
(a) Australia.
(b) India.
(c) Burma.
(d) Japan.

2. How many people were killed by the elephant while it was rampaging?
(a) None.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

3. In what country is the narrator, in Chapter 3?
(a) France.
(b) Burma.
(c) Spain.
(d) England.

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

5. Why does Orwell dismiss Tolstoy's criticism?
(a) It is impossible to prove.
(b) Tolstoy wasn't educated enough to write well-informed criticisms.
(c) Orwell doesn't think highly of Tolstoy's writings.
(d) Tolstoy was prejudiced against the English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What change has occurred for the narrator, in Chapter 3?

2. Orwell feels that Swift, through "Gulliver's Travels", is attacking what sort of government structure?

3. What is the narrator's profession?

4. According to Orwell, what word best describes Tolstoy's criticisms?

5. What major change occurred in Tolstoy's life?

(see the answer key)

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