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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The basic premise of the postcards that deal with marriage is that marriage benefits who?
(a) Only the men.
(b) Only the women.
(c) Both the men and the women.
(d) Only the children.

2. At what time period does Raffles capture the public's imagination?
(a) Beginning of the 19th century.
(b) Beginning of the 20th century.
(c) Beginning of the 17th century.
(d) Beginning of the 18th century.

3. Kipling provides nearly the only literary description of much of nineteenth-century where?
(a) Anglo-Arabia.
(b) Anglo-India.
(c) Anglo-Pacifica.
(d) Anglo-Persia.

4. Miss Blandish is the daughter of whom?
(a) A nobleman.
(b) A millionaire.
(c) A king.
(d) A politician.

5. What does Orwell remember catching at school?
(a) Girls.
(b) Chicken pox.
(c) Fireflies.
(d) Insects.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once Orwell won his scholarships, the school considered him what?

2. Is Donald McGill a real person?

3. In what type of print does Raffles appear?

4. How long does it take Orwell before he started wetting his bed at school?

5. Most characters illustrated on McGill postcards are what?

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