Shooting an Elephant
The Frog Prince
Not Waving but Drowning
George Orwell
Stevie Smith
100
The story takes place in this Southeast Asian country, which is now known as Myanmar.
What is Burma?
100

For this amount of years, the frog prince has stayed in his amphibious form.

What are 100 years?

100
The people believed that the swimming man was doing this action instead of calling for help.
What is waving?
100
In 1945, near the end of WWII, he completed this novel based on the dangers of dictatorships using barnyard animals.
What is Animal Farm?
100
Smith's aunt was similar to this feline predator.
What is a lion?
200
Orwell noticed a elephant in the plot, expecting it to be more violent, however it acts more like this emotion?

P.S. It's nothing specific. As long as it's close.

What is calm?

Also take: Relaxed, Chill, Cool, etc.

200

The frog prince is waiting for a princess to give him this common cliche.

What is true love's kiss?

200
The poor chap loved to do this before he passed away.
What is larking?
200
Ever since Orwell became a committed socialist, he has despised this form of government, formerly used by the Soviet Union.
What is communism?
200

Smith took inspiration in these fantasy stories for her poetry.

What are fairy tales?
300

Orwell despises this empire for oppressing the Burmese, even though he worked as a servant of their imperialism.

What is Britain?
300

The frog will undergo this transformation when he's kissed by a royal princess in a royal palace.

What is disenchantment?

300

In the poem, it seems the people were this disability when the man was yelling for help.

What is deaf?

300

Orwell joined the Indian Imperial Police in 1922 and left for Burma, which was a part of this European country.

What is Britain?
300
After being rejected by several agents in 1934, Smith wrote this autobiographical novel.

What is the Novel of Yellow Paper?

400
Orwell went to shoot an elephant to enhance this attribute with the public.
What is reputation?
400
The frog prince states that he cannot be this until he's disenchanted by a princess.
What is heavenly?
400
This guttural sound was the poor chap's last action before his passing.
What is moaning?
400

This book was published in 1933, his first novel, based on his experiences in London and Paris, living a meager existence.

What is Down and Out in Paris and London?
400
This school subject was one of Smith's favorites, even though she would exasperate her teachers.
What is music?
500

When Orwell begins to shoot the elephant, he continuously shoots at it. It's implied that he kept shooting to do this familiar phrase for killing someone.

What is putting someone out of their misery?

500
The frog prince lives his life in this liquid-filled resource.
What is a well?
500

This killed the poor chap when he was in the water.

What is hypothermia?
500
In 1949, while writing 1984, Orwell successfully battled off this lung-related illness.
What is tuberculosis?
500
In 1969, Queen Elizabeth II presented Smith with this award for her poetry.
What is the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry?
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