shooting an elephant, George Orwell

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According to shooting an elephant, why was Orwell in Burma

B. To serve as a police officer in Moulmein

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In shooting an elephant, why is or well asked to do something about the elephant

See. Only the British police force have weapons.

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In shooting an elephant, why does oral hate his job?

C he is disliked insulted by the Burmese people . D. He sees how badly the empire govern the Burmese F. He witnesses the abuse of jail Burmese people.

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In shooting an elephant, why does oral lead the elephant before it dies

B he can no longer stand to see the elephant suffer and is not able to do anything about it

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What Is the most likely meaning of supplant as it is used in the following sentence “ Mia works hard at learning the business, her father founded and will, when he retires, supplant him as president”

B replace

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If a country has a despotic government, which of the following is most likely true

D the government leader rules through Martial law and usually has only his interest in mine

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What is the most likely Meaning of resolute, as it is used in the following “ Brianna, who is resolute in her desire to win a scholarship to her state university, is doing all that she came to Achieve her goal”

C. Determined

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Read these lines from shooting an elephant “ With one part of my mind, I thought of British Raj and unbreakable tyranny, as something clamp down, in saecula saeculorum , upon the will of prostrate people’s; with other part, I thought that the greatest joy in the world would be to drive a Burnett into a Buddhist priest gut. Feelings, like these are the normal byproducts of imperialism; ask any Angelo Indian official, if you can catch him off duty.” Which answer best explains the meaning of the sentence feelings like these are normal by products of imperialism

C. Indian officials feel guilty for upholding, the empire’s authority, well at the same time they despise the local population.

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The following question has two parts part a, and then part B part a in shooting an elephant how does the crowds presence affect the narrators response to the crisis

Part B, which passage from the essay best supports the response to part a

A. He feels compelled by the crowds mood behavior to shoot the elephant.

D. And suddenly, I realized that I should have to shoot the elephant after all. The people expected it of me and I had got to do it; I could feel their 2000 wheels, pressing Me forward, irresistibly

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The following question has two parts part a first and then part B

Part eight in shooting an elephant what does oral learn about the powers and ultimately authority from his experience of shooting the elephant?

Part B, which, expert from the essay best supports the answer part a

A. When someone tries to impose his will on other others, it is he that loses his independence

C. I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant in his own freedom that he destroys

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The following question has two parts part eight and then part

Part a in shooting which choice best describes Orwell’s feelings or attitude when he catches the dying elephant

Part B, which passage from the essay best supports the answer to support a

A. Anguished.

B. I felt that I had Got to put it into that dreadful noise. It seemed dreadful to see this great giant beast, laying there, powerless to move, and yet powerless to die, and not even to be able to finish him.

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Which best states the central idea conveyed in shooting

D. Working for an imperialism power is morally compromising.

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Which best describes how orals resentful feelings toward the Burmese show, situational, irony, Inshooting an elephant

DOL see they were as the victims of British oppression

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What situational irony arises from this statement and it’s outcome in shooting an elephant

“ A Sahib has to act like a Sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind And do definite things”

C. although he knows his own mind, or well cannot do what he thinks he should

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The following question has two parts is part a And part B

Part a which best explains the situational irony or well introduces in shooting an elephant when he describes killing The elephant

Part B, which passage from the selection that supports the answer part a

C. He feels regret for killing the elephant yet is relieved that he had a valid reason for shooting it

D. And afterward, I was very glad that the Coolie had been killed; it put me illegally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the Elephant

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The following words of similar meanings, which of them has the most negative connotation

A pushy

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The following words have similar meanings, which of them has the most positive connotation

D. determined

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Which of the choices is an example of formal language?

A. Jesse‘s mom really laid into him for scarfing down his food like a pig

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Which of the choices is an example of informal language?

A. So gullible: She’ll take any Bait-Hook, line, and sinker

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Which of the following sentences has a tent or foreboding tone?

A. After the shriek, a hush fell over the forest, leaving Foti, a victim of his worst imaginations.

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Which describes the most important structural similarity of back to my own country, NSA and shooting an elephant

C. both essays look at the causes and effects of racism

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Back to my own country in essay and shooting an elephant, both explore the impact of the British empire. Which best identifies the perspectives from which the impact is explored in each selection.

A. Levi shares the perspective of the colonize while Orwell gives the viewpoint from a colonizer