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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Shooting an Elephant.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who delivers the beatings to Orwell for wetting his bed?
(a) The principal.
(b) The dean.
(c) The resident advisor.
(d) The headmaster.

2. Orwell believes that children have no sense of ______ and therefore cannot judge things for what they are.
(a) History.
(b) Proportion.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Continuity.

3. Who does Orwell send to get an elephant rifle before he goes looking for the elephant?
(a) His aide de camp.
(b) A local man.
(c) A local boy.
(d) His bodyguard.

4. Most characters illustrated on McGill postcards are what?
(a) Stock figures.
(b) Stick figures.
(c) Family figures.
(d) Cartoon figures.

5. Miss Blandish is the daughter of whom?
(a) A politician.
(b) A king.
(c) A nobleman.
(d) A millionaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Moulmein, Orwell serves in what capacity?

2. Kipling provides nearly the only literary description of much of nineteenth-century where?

3. What is the "Blitz" of World War II?

4. Kipling's ideas result in poetry that portrays the common foot soldier as what?

5. Raffles is considered a gentleman _______.

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