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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the hospital staff sterilize their equipment between patients?
(a) They boil the tools.
(b) They use an autoclave.
(c) They dip the tools in rubbing alcohol.
(d) They don't.

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

3. What do the doctors in the narrator's hospital do?
(a) Intervene in only the most critical situations.
(b) Triage the patients, starting with the most critically injured.
(c) Travel from one target patient to the next, ignoring the other patients who are suffering.
(d) Make the terminally ill patients as comfortable as possible.

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

5. What is in the prisoner's cell?
(a) A plank bed and water pot.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A cot and toilet.
(d) A bedroll.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How many people were killed by the elephant while it was rampaging?

4. What treatment is described as a spectator sport on the ward?

5. What is the crowd's reaction to the prisoner's chant?

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