Shooting an Elephant Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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Shooting an Elephant Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 137 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What crucial element of Shakespeare's works does Tolstoy fail to recognize, according to Orwell?
(a) The fact that Shakespeare deliberately incorporated flaws into his work.
(b) Shakespeare's lack of education.
(c) The social commentary in Shakespeare's works.
(d) Shakespeare's status as a poet.

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

3. In what stage of Tolstoy's life did this major change occur?
(a) Middle age.
(b) Young adulthood.
(c) Old age.
(d) Youth.

4. Overall, how does Orwell feel about "Gulliver's Travels"?
(a) He is bored by them, and doesn't understand people's fascination with the story.
(b) He likes the books, and has reread them many times.
(c) He feels that the books have an important message, but are poorly executed.
(d) He understands, and sympathizes with, Swift's message, but thinks the books are poorly executed.

5. How is the prisoner going to be executed?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Lethal injection.
(c) Firing squad.
(d) Stoning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of bath does the hospital staff give the narrator?

2. Where is the narrator working?

3. Where did the elephant come from?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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