Shooting an Elephant | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Chapter 1

1. What is the narrator's profession?

2. Where is the narrator working?

3. The narrator is a citizen of what country?

4. In this story, Burma is a colony of what empire?

5. How do the Burmese treat the narrator?

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

7. What has the elephant destroyed?

8. Where did the elephant come from?

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

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

11. Why does the narrator eventually shoot the elephant?

12. How does the elephant die?

Short Answer Questions - Chapter 2

1. Of what religion...
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