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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 technical school.
(c) A boarding school.
(d) A day school.

2. Most characters illustrated on McGill postcards are what?
(a) Stock figures.
(b) Cartoon figures.
(c) Family figures.
(d) Stick figures.

3. What happens to the elephant after Orwell shoots all his elephant rifle ammunition at it?
(a) It dies.
(b) It wanders off.
(c) It is still breathing.
(d) It spits up blood.

4. What is one of the schools that Crossgates graduates attend?
(a) Eton.
(b) Ellison.
(c) Everton.
(d) Edinburgh.

5. Dickens believes that what type of children shouldn't have to work long shifts in crushing labor?
(a) Small.
(b) Gifted.
(c) Rich.
(d) Young.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Orwell first comes upon the elephant, what is it eating?

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

3. Dickens writes from what point of view?

4. At what time period does Raffles capture the public's imagination?

5. For Dickens, work is what?

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