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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) Knowledge for its own sake.
(b) Knowledge supported by insufficient evidence.
(c) Knowledge used only for practical purposes.
(d) Abstract knowledge.

2. What does the narrator call the hospital?
(a) "The Tomb."
(b) "Hopital X."
(c) "L'hopital du mort."
(d) "Nurse Ratchet's wing."

3. What does the prisoner begin to chant as he walks?
(a) A Hindu prayer for salvation.
(b) The names of his family members.
(c) Nonsense words.
(d) The name of the god, Ram.

4. According to Orwell, how did Swift offend Queen Anne?
(a) By writing a satirical piece that made fun of the English government.
(b) By criticizing a law passed by Parliament.
(c) By greeting her inappropriately when he met her.
(d) By writing a pamphlet that criticized dissenters from the church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the police and magistrates feel after the prisoner's death?

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

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

4. Tolstoy accuses the playwright he is criticizing of having a philosophy similar to whom?

5. In principle, with whom does the narrator side?

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