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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What illness does the narrator have, in Chapter 3?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Scarlet fever.

5. How is the prisoner behaving, as he is marching to his death?
(a) He tries to attack his guards and escape.
(b) He walks with dignity.
(c) He quietly attempts to bribe the guard.
(d) He begs for mercy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Orwell, how does Gulliver change from part two to part three of "Gulliver's Travels"?

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

3. What does the narrator call the hospital?

4. Which play did Tolstoy criticize most harshly?

5. How do the Burmese treat the narrator?

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