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Shooting an Elephant
India's history
Gandhi
Grammar
Bonus
100
The genre of the text.
What is an essay?
100
The name of the social structure in which classes are determined by heredity.
What is the caste system?
100
Gandhi was sitting in first class on the train, and therefore this happened.
Why was Gandhi thrown off a South African train in 1893?
100
They gently lied the injured dog at the ground. (2 errors)
What is "They gently laid the injured dog on the ground"?
100
The author of "Shooting an Elephant".
Who is George Orwell?
200
This happens to the British empire in "Shooting an Elephant".
What is the empire looses power? (or the like).
200
The two major religious groups in India.
What are the Hindus and the Muslims?
200
Gandhi did it in protest against the fight between Muslims and Hindus.
What is fasting?
200
The death by his wife effected him very deep. (3 errors).
What is "The death of his wife affected him very deeply"?
200
The capital of India.
What is New Delhi?
300
The explanation of how shooting an elephant is an example of the oppressor being the suppressed.
What is the main character (the oppressor) being forced (by the suppressed) to shoot the elephant?
300
The century in which the British Crown gained control of India and began to administer her as a number of provinces. (Taking over after company rule).
What is the 19th century? (1858) The British East India Company arrived in the early 1600s - and by the late 1700s, it was essentially ruling India (backed by its own army).
300
The Indians' response to the English registration law.
What is a non-violent protest? What is burning registration cards?
300
The difference between practice and practise.
What is practice is a noun and practise is a verb.
300
The century when "White Man's Burden" was published.
What is the 19th century? (1899)
400
The poem whose title indicates a theme in Shooting an Elephant.
What is White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling.
400
The members of the lowest caste.
Who are the untouchables? People who do low work such as cleaning toilets and burying the dead.
400
The campaing/march that Gandhi lead in 1930.
What is the salt march?
400
The girls looks happily. (2 errors)
What is "the girls look happy"?
400
The genre of "A Horse and Two Goats".
What is a short story?
500
The significance of the line: "He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it".
What is the narrator's feelings about the role he plays in being part of the colonial government in Burma. In fulfilling his position as a member of the police force, he is required to be someone he is not and to enact politices with which he does not agree. He feels imprisoned himself by the political and social forces at work in the colony. Other formulations may be accepted :)
500
The year India gained her independence.
What is 1947?
500
The name of the Indian Muslim politician who founded Pakistan.
Who is Jinnah?
500
The name of this sort of error: "he like her a lot".
What is a concord/congruence error?
500
A period of time after colonialism, and the literature connected with this period is typically characterized by its opposition to the colonial.
What is postcolonialism? /the postcolonial?