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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gulliver disapproves of what sort of knowledge, according to Orwell?
(a) Abstract knowledge.
(b) Knowledge for its own sake.
(c) Knowledge used only for practical purposes.
(d) Knowledge supported by insufficient evidence.

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

3. How were the nurses in the hospital described?
(a) The hospital had no nurses, only a few overburdened doctors.
(b) Compassionate, but incompetent.
(c) Incapable and unsanitary.
(d) Capable, but uncaring.

4. The narrator is a citizen of what country?
(a) Australia.
(b) India.
(c) Britain.
(d) Burma.

5. Why does the narrator hesitate to kill the elephant?
(a) He is afraid of the repercussions from the angry crowd.
(b) It is a large and expensive piece of machinery.
(c) He doesn't want to lose face.
(d) He feels compassion for it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Patients in the narrator's hospital are used for what?

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

3. How is the Burmese jail described?

4. According to Orwell, how did Swift offend Queen Anne?

5. Overall, how does Orwell feel about "Gulliver's Travels"?

(see the answer key)

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