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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many people were killed by the elephant while it was rampaging?
(a) None.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does the narrator eventually shoot the elephant?

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

5. Why does the narrator hesitate to kill the elephant?

(see the answer key)

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