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 ... c. allusion d. derogatory diction e. ironic contrast 20. "Strohschein"" means: a. the appearance of sunshine. b. the sauerkraut is ready. c. farm animals consume straw. d. strong German midfielder. e. the appearance of straw. "Shooting an Elephant"" Quiz KEY: 1. B 2. B 3. D 4. B 5. D 6. B 7. D 8. ...

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... as in the real world, some people have more money than others. One character that seems to be very well off in the wizard world is Draco Malfoy. He has all of the newest and nicest books and school supplies on the first day. His owl is of the nicest breed. When the students ... a character comes from a Muggle family, a pure Wizard family or a mix between the two seems to play an important role in the book. For example, Draco Malfoy is from a pure Wizard family and he takes great pride in it. He often judges others by this measure. On the train to Hogwarts he says to Harry ... any means...

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... author describe the problematic situations that the character is in. It shows how there are many people who honor and love Harry Potter, but how people like Snape, Voldemort, and Draco Malfoy all hate Harry because he represents the good people. There are many conflicts between the characters, like how Snape hates Harry because Snape and Harry's father were rivals and in ... and so he can go back to hating his rival in peace. Then there's the sort of rivalry conflict between Draco Malfoy and Harry, ever since the first day they met Harry knew that he would not like being in the company ...

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... friend, Ron Weasley, and his soon to be friend, Hermione Granger.    The days past as the school year begins, and he discovers his natural talent for Quidditch. Draco Malfoy soon challenges him to a wizard duel, but Malfoy doesn't show, leaving Harry in a dangerous place where he first learns about the three-headed dog that seems to be guarding something.    After the Christmas break ... . Harry's success at making true friendships and overcoming his early loneliness shows great character development, and shows more to come. Other important characters include Ron Weasly, He...

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... woke up and saved Harry by making him eat chocolate which seemed to make him feel allot better. When they finally got to Hogwarts, Harry was the laughing stock of Draco Malfoy and his friends because of his fainting from the Dementor that came into the train. Harry shook it all off and had a great first day feast with a good sleep thinking ... by Hagrid who was given new rights, he brought out his Hypoggrifs to show to the class on how to act near them and make them fly. During the class Draco Malfoy insults the Hypoggrif which can understand different things which resulted in a slash o...

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... for. There are different types of evil. Voldemort represents a serious evil, which is willing to kill people to gain power, but Draco Malfoy is a minor evil who is more unkind and horrible, than downright evil. Malfoy is Harry's enemy at school. Malfoy is an arrogant, middle class boy who likes to boast about his father's wealth. He comes from a privileged background and is therefore ... spoilt. Because of this he looks down to people, "red hair, banged up wand, dirty robes, it's obvious you are a Weasley." This is Malfoy bullying Ron because of his class and difference to Malfoy. Malfo...

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... ; both mother and father love their children and they are teaching them the right values. By comparison, Neville Longbottom who is only raised by his grandmother (single parent model) and Draco Malfoy who is being taught with wrong lessons are the damaged children. Furthermore, Rowling didn't give the chance to the readers to decide if one character is good or bad for ... begins (reason to move). 3. Harry leaves home and goes to Hogwarts with Hagrid ( first contact with external world). 4. Harry meets positive characters like Hermione and Ron and negative characters like Draco Malfoy. 5...

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... it), deflecting a killing spell back upon its sender and reducing Voldemort to helplessness. Despite the resentment generated by this reputation among the children of Voldemort's former sympathizers-including fellow pupil Draco Malfoy and the disciplinarian teacher Severus Snape-Harry finds life at Hogwarts idyllic and makes two more firm friends in the bookish Hermione Granger and the hapless but willing Ron Weasley ... safe, with the aid of Remus Lupin, the new teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts (a post with a remarkably high turnover). Harry has further trouble with both Severu...

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... seems that there is more than one antagonist. The Dursley family because all they do is reject Harry as a family member and make Harry's like intolerable. Then there is also Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle who just hate Harry for who he is and try to torture him at every possible opportunity. Harry also thinks that Professor Serevus Snape hates him, when ... 's stone, but Harry doesn't know that yet. From this time a lot of strange events happen and Harry, Ron, and Hermione are putting all the clues together. In chapter 9, Harry and Draco Malfoy are supposed to have a midnight duel. But ...

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... 's got seats in the top box. There they meat a friend from Mr. Weasly's work. His name is Ludo Bagmins. After a little conversation Lucius, Draco, and Narcissa Malfoy came and sat down. Lucius is a long time enemy of Mr. Weasly. Draco is a long time enemy of Harry. Then all of a sudden Ludo used a spell and his voice escalated over everyone other person's voice. Ludo ... ...

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... new subjects. These are Divination and Care of Magical Creatures. During the first lesson of Divination Professor Trelawney predicts that Harry's death is nearby and during Care of Magical Creatures Draco Malfoy is attacked by a Hippogriff, because he insulted it. (Hippogriffs are magical creatures that have the bodies, hind legs and tails of horses, but the wings and heads of giant eagles ... ) Draco's father has a lot of influence on the ministry of magic and the Hippogriff will be killed. This hurts the teacher Hagrid a lot, who's a very good friend of Harry's. Harry discovers ... ...

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... jealous of him and think that Harry is weak. Harry is still picked on at the Hogwarts School of Witch Craft. He develops hatred and distrust for Draco Malfoy another boy at the school. Harry and Malfoy become enemies, but now Harry is able to fight back with his friends. He does not just get pushed around like he always did when Dudley ... ...

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... two special schoolmates: Hermione Granger, a delightful young lady with the gift of intellect and study; Ron Weasley, not talented in much of anything. Harry also gains a new enemy, fellow schoolmates Draco Malfoy, a young man with a quite nasty tattle telling, conniving personality. Harry, Hermoine and Ron belong to one of four houses of the school ... . Malfoy belongs to a rival house. Part of the rivalry is expressed in broom riding. Harry Potter has never been the star of Quidditch, which is the game of scoring points while ... ...

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... define him as. To most, he is only "the boy who lived." Another thing Harry is known for is his Quidditch skills. In his first year, thanks to Draco Malfoy, he becomes the new Gryffindor Seeker and the youngest house player in a century. His skills are thought to be inherited by his father James Potter, who was also a Quidditch player ... ...

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... King. Doing otherwise would give him away, and be disrespectful on his part. Snape on the other hand, did not have the luxury of mourning Dumbledore's death. It was initially Draco Malfoy who was mandated to kill Dumbledore, but he was only a young teenager and could not carry out the deed. Dumbledore knew this and instructed Snape beforehand to kill him, thus ... ...

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... when he does something exceptionally well, like Quidditch, but at the same time, he doesn't want anyone to see when he makes mistakes. The series also contains a very prominent bully, Draco Malfoy, much like any other bully at every school. Harry and his friends make bad decisions and they are always caught and punished, but just as often they keep each other ... ...

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... quickly become Harry's allies, while Filch the lurking caretaker and later, the troll become threshold guardians, as well as the three headed dog, Fluffy, based on the mythological guardian, Cerberus. Draco Malfoy is immediately introduced as a junior shadow as a descendant of a follower of Voldermort, and a Slytherin, the house of Voldermort. With these archetypal figures come mythic trials: Harry's positive potential against the ... ...

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... the confidence needed to become a successful wizard does exist. As Harry continues at Hogwart's he begins to develop enemies. One of them is Malfoy. While attending a class on flying, Malfoy steals the remembrall that belongs to Ron. Without thinking Harry jumps on his broom, prepared to steal the ball back from ... Malfoy. "Harry grabbed his broom. "No!" shouted Hermione Granger. "Madam Hooch told us not to move - you"ll get us all into trouble." Harry ... ground- (Rowling, p110) Harry does not even think about the potential punishment he could face if he gets caught. He displays the...

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... makes the movie lose a part of its charm. One important element that was missing from the movie that was in the book was the constant torment inflicted by Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle on Harry. Malfoy is definitely established as an evil character in certain scenes but it's a clumsy and adolescent kind of evil, rather that the persistent one that the book conveys ... . Malfoy is a constant foil for Harry in the books but exists as a minor annoyance in the movie. The character Malfoy works in the books because he's the prototypical bully and he enjoys it. Whenever Harry beats ... Malfoy at ...

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... BC, abolished the hereditary kingship of Athens in 683 BC. The Eupatridae also kept complete authority by their supreme power to dispense justice. In 621 BC statesman Draco codified and published the Athenian law, there by limiting the judiciary power of the nobles. A second major blow to the hereditary power of the Eupatride was the ... ensued under the early stages of Athenian democracy. The result of this jealousy was the establishment of a code written by the appointed ruler Draco. This code of laws promoted stability and equity. These laws however did more to hurt the democracy of A...

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... were not born into wizard families. A week later Harry went to a dueling club taught by Snape. He was showing everybody how to duel against another wizard. Malfoy and Harry were the first to duel. Malfoy said a spell and instantly the end of his wand shot out a snake. Harry started talking to it and set it on Justin. Then he called it back ... were not born into wizard families. A week later Harry went to a dueling club taught by Snape. He was showing everybody how to duel against another wizard. Malfoy and Harry were the first to duel. Malfoy said a spell and instantly the end of his w...

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... the instructor. QUIZZES There will be seven (7) quizzes over the span of the course. Each quiz will be worth 10 points. The majority (but not all) of the chapters have a quiz associated with them. Quiz days and the chapter being covered are listed on the tentative course schedule. Quizzes will take ... GRADE BREAKDOWN Assignment Points Informative Outline 25 Persuasive Outline 50 First Speech 25 Nonverbal Speech 25 Complete Package Speech 50 Informative Speech 50 Persuasive Speech 100 Reflection Paper 50 Top 5 quiz scores 50 Exam #1 OR Exam #2 75 Total Points 500 Grade Breakdown: A = 50...

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... government take throughout society as a whole and in the economy. Upon taking the "Worlds smallest Political quiz" online, the website told me that I was a Centrist. The next quiz was an ideology quiz. This quiz told me that I also tended towards the conservative side. The "Worlds smallest Political Quiz" showed the national results and percentages of those who have previously taken the test. The majority of ... people who take the quiz, 37.7% are liberals. The second most popular grouping is Centrist at 29 %. The ... ideology quiz stated that the average of all those who take this qui...

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... memory abilities, schools and other learning institutes could use the results and apply them to their facilities. The children would then take a post lesson quiz and also be given a survey about the material they learned and what they thought of the classroom. There have been previous studies with color psychology ... The lesson plans will be appropriate for the age and grade level as well as the same for the three conditions. A 20 question post lesson quiz will be given to determine the learning and memory abilities of the students in various rooms. After that, the students will be given...

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... leading us on a journey of figuring out exactly where we lie on the line between Democrat and Republican. After taking the Pew Typology Quiz my personal typology happened to be Libertarian. Libertarians believe in balancing their conservative views with liberal ideas in social matters. They believe that each ... believe corporations make a reasonable and fair profit. I believe that my typology would fit somewhere in between Libertarian and Disaffected. After taking the Pew Typology Quiz I found that I definitely agree with the results. Although I did not personally fit in with the 39% o...

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