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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 headmaster.
(b) The dean.
(c) The principal.
(d) The resident advisor.

2. Why does Orwell shoot the elephant?
(a) Peer pressure.
(b) He was in danger.
(c) It was clearly wild.
(d) It ran at him.

3. How does Orwell, repeatedly, refer to Kipling's poetry?
(a) Good novel poetry.
(b) Good bad poetry.
(c) Good musical poetry.
(d) Good versical poetry.

4. How man people gather to watch Orwell find the elephant?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 2,000,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 2,000.

5. Dickens treats all petty officials with what?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Impatience.
(c) Fear.
(d) Pity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orwell believes that children have no sense of ______ and therefore cannot judge things for what they are.

2. Dickens says that proper acts are those that are historically what?

3. Dickens is not what type of writer?

4. According to Orwell, how does Kipling view life?

5. Orwell leaves the scene of the elephant shooting feeling what?

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