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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How do the Burmese treat the narrator?
(a) They are respectful to his face, but sneer at him behind his back.
(b) They are openly violent at times.
(c) They are respectful and grateful to him.
(d) They harass and insult him whenever they can.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How is the Burmese jail described?

5. How is the prisoner behaving, as he is marching to his death?

(see the answer key)

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