Name ______________________________ Date ________ Period ______ "Shooting an Elephant" Quiz (40 points; 2 points each) Directions: Circle the best answer for each question. 1. Orwell takes great length in describing the elephant's demise. What does his description foreshadow? a. the rise of the empire b. the fall of the empire c. the prosperity of the empire d. the birth of the empire e. the dream of a new empire 2. The speaker's attitude toward shooting the elephant as revealed ... of: a. simile b. a quotation c. allusion d. derogatory diction e. ironic contrast 20. "Strohschein"" means: a. ...

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... , Author of" Shooting an Elephant". Began by stating and opinion of the Burmese natives saying," (He was hated by large number of people") Orwell 133. Including the young monks. Orwell was a police officer that hated his job in the city of Burma. And had death in his hands when he decided to kill the poor Elephant which is selfish in ... in this article again he just wanted a status quo. The article says George Orwell had done a mistake by killing the Elephant. Orwell said(" He did not want to shoot the Elephant")Orwell 136. He admitted that he never shot an elephant and never wanted to....

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After reading George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant," one realizes just how ineffective an imperialistic government really is. Imperialism in some places of the world is considered a perfectly adequate, especially in England. Unfortunately, these are ... Burmese and understand why they despise him. When Orwell is finally confronted with the decision of whether or not to shoot the elephant, he further comes to realize the ineffectiveness of an Imperialistic government. Orwell realizes that it is not the commanding country that has the power but rather the commanded. This concept ... of the flaw...

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... and pressure to please a group. The narrator in George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" is faced with precisely this kind of situation. A young British police officer in early twentieth century colonial Burma feels forced to act irrationally. He must contend with an excited mob of over two thousand Burmese townspeople who wish him to shoot an escaped elephant, while taking into consideration the loss to the show ... along with his own distaste for shooting the great beast, " Somehow it always seems worse to kill a large animal," he remarks. Although today we are often led to abandon reas...

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