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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Patients in the narrator's hospital are used for what?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Experimentation.
(d) Observation.

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

3. How many works is the person in Chapter 14 attempting to review?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

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

5. What is the symbol of Gulliver's aging?
(a) His arthritic hands.
(b) His spectacles.
(c) His hair, which is turning grey.
(d) His cane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Orwell claim that his readers think farmers and fishermen wouldn't be interested in reading his essays about nature?

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

3. Death, at the narrator's hospital, is personified by a patient who finds what activity difficult and painful?

4. What change has occurred for the narrator, in Chapter 3?

5. Why does the narrator eventually shoot the elephant?

(see the answer key)

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