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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 narrator's profession?
(a) Police officer.
(b) Judge.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Firefighter.

2. Where do the magistrates and police convene after the prisoner's death?
(a) At the local tavern.
(b) They don't convene, they all go to their own homes.
(c) Close to the location of the corpse.
(d) On the side of town opposite the gallows.

3. In Orwell's opinion, what does Tolstoy do to the scenes he is presenting?
(a) He takes them out of context.
(b) He misquotes them.
(c) He misunderstands them.
(d) He distorts them.

4. What do the doctors in the narrator's hospital do?
(a) Triage the patients, starting with the most critically injured.
(b) Travel from one target patient to the next, ignoring the other patients who are suffering.
(c) Intervene in only the most critical situations.
(d) Make the terminally ill patients as comfortable as possible.

5. Why does the narrator eventually shoot the elephant?
(a) Because it is his job.
(b) Because he wants to collect the reward.
(c) The angry crowd doesn't really give him a choice.
(d) Because he doesn't want anyone else to get hurt.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Burmese treat the narrator?

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

3. What creature intervenes as the prisoner is being led to his execution?

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

5. What is the subject of Gulliver's ranting in the second book of "Gulliver's Travels"?

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