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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kipling provides nearly the only literary description of much of nineteenth-century where?
(a) Anglo-Arabia.
(b) Anglo-Pacifica.
(c) Anglo-India.
(d) Anglo-Persia.

2. Among the poorer students, illnesses are considered to be be a form of what?
(a) Bad breeding.
(b) Laziness.
(c) Bad behavior.
(d) Moral defect.

3. Orwell leaves the scene of the elephant shooting feeling what?
(a) Disgusted.
(b) Sad.
(c) Brave.
(d) Happy.

4. At what age do the McGill postcards imply that sex-appeal evaporates?
(a) Forty.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Thirty-five.
(d) Thirty.

5. McGill's postcards are designed to get what?
(a) Noticed.
(b) Collected.
(c) Sold.
(d) A laugh.

Short Answer Questions

1. The obscene McGill postcards are tolerated because they are based on what?

2. Dickens is against trade _______.

3. The premise of "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" is that everyone seeks to increase what?

4. What does Orwell remember catching at school?

5. Dickens focuses on the institutions of what?

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