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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of Gulliver's ranting in the second book of "Gulliver's Travels"?
(a) Organized religion.
(b) Aging.
(c) His children.
(d) England.

2. How do the police and magistrates feel after the prisoner's death?
(a) Angry.
(b) Elated.
(c) Guilty.
(d) Apathetic.

3. What crucial element of Shakespeare's works does Tolstoy fail to recognize, according to Orwell?
(a) The fact that Shakespeare deliberately incorporated flaws into his work.
(b) Shakespeare's lack of education.
(c) The social commentary in Shakespeare's works.
(d) Shakespeare's status as a poet.

4. Orwell feels that Swift, through "Gulliver's Travels", is attacking what sort of government structure?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Totalitarianism.
(c) Oligarchy.
(d) Aristocracy.

5. How is the prisoner going to be executed?
(a) Firing squad.
(b) Lethal injection.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Stoning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of "Gulliver's Travels" does Orwell discuss in Chapter 5?

2. In Orwell's opinion, what does Tolstoy do to the scenes he is presenting?

3. Tolstoy accuses the playwright he is criticizing of having a philosophy similar to whom?

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

5. What is in the prisoner's cell?

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