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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Tolstoy accuses the playwright he is criticizing of having a philosophy similar to whom?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Machiavelli.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Stalin.

3. How is the Burmese jail described?
(a) Small and dank.
(b) Spacious and institutional.
(c) Wet and unsanitary.
(d) Old and musty.

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

5. What creature intervenes as the prisoner is being led to his execution?
(a) An elephant.
(b) A scorpion.
(c) A stray dog.
(d) A stray cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the symbol of Gulliver's aging?

2. What does the prisoner begin to chant as he walks?

3. What major change occurred in Tolstoy's life?

4. Of what religion is the prisoner in Chapter 2?

5. What is the narrator's profession?

(see the answer key)

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