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

2. How does Orwell feel about Shakespeare?
(a) He loves his work, and has profound respect for him as an artist.
(b) He likes Shakespeare, but realizes that there are flaws in his work.
(c) He likes Shakespeare's characters, but not the plots of his plays.
(d) He admires what Shakespeare attempted, but dislikes his works.

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

4. According to Orwell, what were Smith's religious beliefs?
(a) Swift subscribed to his own form of spirituality.
(b) He was not a religious man.
(c) Swift believed in a higher power, but rejected organized religions.
(d) Swift was a firm believer in the necessity of organized religion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the doctors in the narrator's hospital do?

2. How many people were killed by the elephant while it was rampaging?

3. What is the symbol of Gulliver's aging?

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

5. What does Orwell say about Tolstoy's conversion?

(see the answer key)

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