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 * QUESTIONS 1-8 REFER TO THE FOLLOWING SELECTION. READ THE PASSAGE CAREFULLY, AND THEN CHOOSE THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS. IN //SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT//, GEORGE ORWELL NARRATES HIS EXPERIENCE WITH THE PEOPLE AND AN ELEPHANT IN BURMA. **


 * FROM //SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT// **

Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd--seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind. I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib. For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives," and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him. He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. I had got to shoot the elephant. I had committed myself to doing it when I sent for the rifle. A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things. To come all that way, rifle in hand, with two thousand people marching at my heels, and then to trail feebly away, having done nothing--no, that was impossible. The crowd would laugh at me. And my whole life, every white man's life in the East, was one long struggle not to be laughed at... ...It was perfectly clear to me what I ought to do. I ought to walk up to within, say, twenty-five yards of the elephant and test his behavior. If he charged, I could shoot; if he took no notice of me, it would be safe to leave him until the mahout came back. But also I knew that I was going to do no such thing. I was a poor shot with a rifle and the ground was soft mud into which one would sink at every step. If the elephant charged and I missed him, I should have about as much chance as a toad under a steam-roller. But even then I was not thinking particularly of my own skin, only of the watchful yellow faces behind. For at that moment, with the crowd watching me, I was not afraid in the ordinary sense, as I would have been if I had been alone. A white man mustn't be frightened in front of "natives"; and so, in general, he isn't frightened. The sole thought in my mind was that if anything went wrong those two thousand Burmans would see me pursued, caught, trampled on and reduced to a grinning corpse like that Indian up the hill. And if that happened it was quite probable that some of them would laugh. That would never do. There was only one alternative. I shoved the cartridges into the magazine and lay down on the road to get a better aim. The crowd grew very still, and a deep, low, happy sigh, as of people who see the theatre curtain go up at last, breathed from innumerable throats. They were going to have their bit of fun after all. The rifle was a beautiful German thing with cross-hair sights. I did not then know that in shooting an elephant one would shoot to cut an imaginary bar running from ear-hole to ear-hole. I ought, therefore, as the elephant was sideways on, to have aimed straight at his ear-hole, actually I aimed several inches in front of this, thinking the brain would be further forward.  When I pulled the trigger I did not hear the bang or feel the kick--one never does when a shot goes home--but I heard the devilish roar of glee that went up from the crowd. In that instant, in too short a time, one would have thought, even for the bullet to get there, a mysterious, terrible change had come over the elephant. He neither stirred nor fell, but every line of his body had altered. He looked suddenly stricken, shrunken, immensely old, as though the frightful impact of the bullet had paralysed him without knocking him down. At last, after what seemed a long time- -it might have been five seconds, I dare say--he sagged flabbily to his knees. His mouth slobbered. An enormous senility seemed to have settled upon him. One could have imagined him thousands of years old.

1. The main reason for this selection is  a. to describe his time in Burma  b. teach people how to shoot an elephant  c. explain how Burmans did not like Europeans <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. describe his experience and reluctancy in killing an elephant <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. to follow his brief time in Burma

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">2. The general tone of this passage is <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. serious <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. melancholy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. subtle humor <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. satirical <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. nostalgic

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">3. In paragraph 4, the first sentence “//When I pulled the trigger I did not hear the bang or feel the kick--one never does when a shot goes home…”// is an example of which literary device? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. metaphor <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. hyperbole <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. personification <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. onomatopoeia <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. simile

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">4. The word, “sahib” could mean all of the following **except** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. a white European man <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. a foreigner <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. a tourist <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. a headstrong person <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. someone who is resolute

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">5. The second half of the last paragraph is meant to <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. express the vulnerability of the elephant <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. describe his experience of shooting the elephant <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. give description to what he saw <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. highlight the crowd’s joy in shooting the elephant <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. explain how Orwell felt after shooting the elephant

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">6. All of the following may be found in the passage **except** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">a. the meaning of the word, “sahib” <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. the author’s feeling of shooting an elephant <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. how a “white man” should act in front “natives” <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. how to shoot an elephant <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. how the author feels as if he were a puppet

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">7. The sentence, //“ I ought, therefore, as the elephant was sideways on, to have aimed straight at his ear-hole, actually I aimed several inches in front of this, thinking the brain would be further forward.”// serves to <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. describe the elephant as Orwell saw it <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. give a visionary idea <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. provide a intro for the last paragraph <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. explains Orwell’s motives <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. correctly describe the moment before shooting the elephant

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">8. What is the literary device used in the sentence, //“ If the elephant charged and I missed him, I should have about as much chance as a toad under a steam-roller.” ?// <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. simile <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. metaphor <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. understatement <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. exaggeration <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. onomatopoeia

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Read the following passage, //The Rake: A Few Scenes from My Childhood// by David Mamet carefully before you begin to answer the questions.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">There was the incident of the rake and there was the incident of the school play, and itseems to me that they both took place at the round kitchen table. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The table was not in the kitchen proper but in an area called the nook**,"** which held its claim to that small measure of charm by dint of a waist-high wall separating it from an adjacent area known as the living room.  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">All family meals were eaten in the nook. There was a dining room to the right, but, as inmost rooms of that name at the time and in those surroundings, it was never used.   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The round table was of wrought iron and topped with glass; it was noteworthy for that glass, for it was more than once and rather more than several times, I am inclined to think, that my stepfather would grow so angry as to bring some object down on the glass top, shattering it, thus giving us to know how we had forced him out of control. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">And it seems that most times when he would shatter the table, as often as that might have been, he would cut some portion of himself on the glass, or that he or his wife, our mother, would cut their hands on picking up the glass afterward, and that we children were to understand, and did understand, that these wounds were our fault. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">So the table was associated in our minds with the notion of blood. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The house was in a brand-new housing development in the southern suburbs. The new community was built upon, and now bordered, the remains of what had once been a cornfield. When our new family moved in, there were but a few homes in the development completed, and a few more under construction. Most streets were mud, and boasted a house here or there, and many empty lots marked out by white stakes. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The house we lived in was the development's Model Home. The first time we had seen it, it had signs plastered on the front and throughout the interior telling of the various conveniences it contained. And it had a lawn, and was one of the only homes in the new community that did. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">My stepfather was fond of the lawn, and he detailed me and my sister to care for it, and one fall afternoon we found ourselves assigned to rake the leaves. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Why this chore should have been so hated I cannot say, except that we children, and I especially, felt ourselves less than full members of this new, cobbled-together family, and disliked being assigned to the beautification of a home that we found unbeautiful in all respects, and for which we had neither natural affection nor a sense of proprietary interest.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. were merely for show <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. were prized and honored <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. had lasted for years <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. were ignored <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. were part of their lives
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">From the details, we can infer that the family and its traditions

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">2. In the opening sentence of the passage the author refers to the “incident of the rake” and “the school play” as occurring “at the round kitchen table” for which of the following reasons? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> I. Foreshadow the events <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> II. Give insight into the nature of these events <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> III. Events occurred in “the nook”

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. I only <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. I and II only <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. I and III only <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. II only <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. I, II, III only

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">3. The diction of a phrase like “when he would shatter the table...he would cut a portion of himself” can be best described as  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. bombastic <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. obtuse <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. Detached <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. informal <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. idiomatic <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">4. The author refers to their house as “the development’s Model Home...it had signs plastered on the front and throughout the interior telling of the various conveniences it contained” (lines 28-30). <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. to show the reasons the family bought the house for <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. to show the location of the family home <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. to show how the actual house does not determine the home <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. the suburban influence on family life <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. the influence of the neighborhood

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">5. In a more direct passage the last two sentences--”a home…for which we had neither natural affection nor a sense of proprietary interest”--would probably be <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. the topic sentence <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. in the beginning of the seventh paragraph <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. in the beginning of the last paragraph <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. edited out of the passage <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. changed in structure

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">6. All the following have a double meaning EXCEPT <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. “the incident of the rake...the incident of the school play...took place at the round kitchen table” (lines 1-3) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. “All family meals were eaten in the nook” (line 8). <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. “ The house we lived in was the development’s Model Home” (line 28). <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. “It had signs...telling of the various conveniences it contained” (line 30). <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. “We children...disliked being assigned to the beautification of a home that we found unbeautiful in all respects” (line 37-39).

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">7. In the sentence “the house we lived in was the development’s Model Home” (line 28) the author employs <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. irony <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. a symbol <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. poetic license <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. simile <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. metaphor

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">8. In the fifth paragraph the idea of the kitchen table <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> I. is the symbol of the abusive household <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> II. is representative of the step-father’s childhood <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> III. shows the effect on the kids

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> a. I only <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> b. II only <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> c. I and III only <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> d. I and II only <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> e. I, II and III

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">ANSWERS: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">1. D <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">2. A <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">3. C <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">4. C <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">5. A <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">6. D <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">7. D <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">8. A

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Second Passage <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">1 A. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">2 B <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">3 D <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">4 C <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">5 B <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">6 B <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">7 A <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">8 C