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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the police and magistrates feel after the prisoner's death?
(a) Elated.
(b) Apathetic.
(c) Angry.
(d) Guilty.

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

3. Death, at the narrator's hospital, is personified by a patient who finds what activity difficult and painful?
(a) Bathing.
(b) Walking.
(c) Eating.
(d) Urinating.

4. How did the narrator leave the hospital?
(a) Once his condition was stable, he was moved to another facility.
(b) He fled before his time was up, and without an official discharge.
(c) He transferred to another hospital, to be under the care of his own doctor.
(d) He left fully recovered with a doctor's discharge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator is a citizen of what country?

2. According to Gulliver, scientists should not concern themselves with what area of thought?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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