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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what stage of Tolstoy's life did this major change occur?
(a) Old age.
(b) Youth.
(c) Young adulthood.
(d) Middle age.

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

4. How is the Burmese jail described?
(a) Small and dank.
(b) Wet and unsanitary.
(c) Old and musty.
(d) Spacious and institutional.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which play did Tolstoy criticize most harshly?

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

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

4. How does Gulliver believe science should be used?

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

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