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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In this story, Burma is a colony of what empire?
(a) The British Empire.
(b) The Russian Empire.
(c) The Japanese Empire.
(d) The American Empire.

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

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

4. What does the creature do as the prisoner is being led to his execution?
(a) Bites the executioner.
(b) Rampages through the crowd of spectators.
(c) Stings the attending guard.
(d) Jumps up and tries to lick the prisoner's face.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the elephant destroyed?

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

3. Tolstoy wrote a biting criticism of what playwright's work?

4. Gulliver disapproves of what sort of knowledge, according to Orwell?

5. Which play did Tolstoy criticize most harshly?

(see the answer key)

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