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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Crossgates?
(a) A finishing school.
(b) A day school.
(c) A boarding school.
(d) A technical school.

2. In Moulmein, Orwell serves in what capacity?
(a) Trade advisor.
(b) Police officer.
(c) Military advisor.
(d) Local official.

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

4. McGill postcards say that a man can never win what with a woman?
(a) An argument.
(b) A game.
(c) A poker game.
(d) A fight.

5. Who is the author of the Raffles stories?
(a) Horntrung.
(b) Hornsung.
(c) Hornmurrg.
(d) Hornung.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the elephant after Orwell shoots all his elephant rifle ammunition at it?

2. Dickens treats all petty officials with what?

3. To a modern sensibility, much of Kipling's philosophy is what?

4. Is Donald McGill a real person?

5. Orwell believes that Kipling's poetry is remembered because of what?

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