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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dickens says that proper acts are those that are historically what?
(a) Needed.
(b) Valid.
(c) Inevitable.
(d) Justified.

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

3. According to Orwell, how does Kipling view life?
(a) Insensitvely.
(b) Imperialistically.
(c) Artistically.
(d) Morally.

4. In what country is Moulmein?
(a) Lower Arabia.
(b) Lower India.
(c) Lower Pakistan.
(d) Lower Burma.

5. Orwell believes that children have no sense of ______ and therefore cannot judge things for what they are.
(a) Proportion.
(b) History.
(c) Continuity.
(d) Self-awareness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Orwell, repeatedly, refer to Kipling's poetry?

2. Dickens views revolutions as what?

3. The Raffles stories glamorize what?

4. Dickens was considered a social _______.

5. Who delivers the beatings to Orwell for wetting his bed?

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