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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has the elephant destroyed?
(a) A cart with vegetables in it.
(b) A.grove of trees, a hut, and a bicycle.
(c) A newsstand.
(d) A bamboo hut, some fruit stalls, and a rubbish van.

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

3. Which play did Tolstoy criticize most harshly?
(a) "King Lear".
(b) "The Misanthrope".
(c) "Romeo and Juliet".
(d) "Dr. Faustus".

4. What treatment is described as a spectator sport on the ward?
(a) Cupping.
(b) Cold baths.
(c) Leeching.
(d) The application of mustard poultices.

5. What does the prisoner begin to chant as he walks?
(a) Nonsense words.
(b) A Hindu prayer for salvation.
(c) The names of his family members.
(d) The name of the god, Ram.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of bath does the hospital staff give the narrator?

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

3. What is Orwell's reasoning for the shifts in Gulliver's character?

4. What is in the prisoner's cell?

5. The narrator is a citizen of what country?

(see the answer key)

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