Shooting An Elephant | George Orwell | Short type question answers
Ans: The real name of George Orwell is Eric Blair.
Q.2. Who have been called the ‘evil spirited beasts’?
Ans: The natives of the Moulmein town is Lower Burma have been called ‘evil – spirited beasts’.
Q.3. What is the meaning of ‘Saecula Saeculorum’?
Ans: It is a Latin word meaning ‘for generation of generations'. Colloquially it means ‘for generation upon generation.’
Q.4. Who came round the corner of a hut with a switch in her hand ?
Ans. An old woman came round the corner of the hut with a switch in her hand.
Q.5. How many shots did Orwell fire from his big elephant rifle ?
Ans. Orwell fired five shots from his big elephant rifle.
Q.6. Where did the incident of shooting an elephant take place ?
Ans. The incident of shooting an elephant took place in the paddy fields, eight yards from the road. It was in Moulmein, a little town in Burma.
Q.7, What is the meaning of the word ‘Squeamish’ ?
Ans. ‘Squeamish’ means fastidious, over-scrupulous in questions of propriety.
Q.8. To which thing is compared the red velvat by Orwell ?
Ans. The thick blood streaming from the wounded elephant is compared to red velvet.
Q.9. What was the name of the little town in Burma ?
Ans. The name of the town was Moulmein.
Q.10. What was Orwell in Moulmein ?
Ans. George Orwell was a sub-divisional officer in the town Moulmein in Lower Burma.
Q.11. What did the natives do in Burma when European women went through the bazars alone ?
Ans. Some one of the natives would spit betel juice over her dress.
Q.12. How did the Buddhist priest behave with the European ?
Ans The Buddhist priests would stand on the street and jeer at the Europeans.
Q.13. How was Orwell the target of the insults of the natives ?
Ans. In the football field, if a nimble Burman tripped him up and the referee ignored it, the native crowd would yell with derisive laughter.
Q.14. What was the dilemma of Orwell as a police officer in Burma?
Ans. As a police officer, he saw the tyranny of the British raj on the natives and at the same time he bore the insults of the natives.
Q.15. What did Orwell think about imperialism ?
Ans. Orwell thought that imperialism was an evil thing.
Q.16. What was for Orwell the greatest joy ?
Ans. The greatest joy for Orwell was to drive a bayonet into a Buddist priest’s because they jeered him in the streets.
Q.17. It was a tiny incident in itself.
—What was the incident ?
Ans. The incident was the shooting of an elephant by Orwell when he was the sub-divisional police officer in Moulmein in Burma to satisfy the natives.
Q.18. How did Orwell get the news that an elephant was ravaging the bazzar ?
Ans. A sub-inspector at a police station of the other end of the town gave the news to Orwell on the phone.
Q.19. What of rifle did Orwell take with him when he learnt of an elephant ?
Ans. Orwell took his rifle, an old-44 winchester.
Q.20. What is the meaning of in terrorem ? Ans. It is a Latin word meaning ‘as a warning’.
Q.21. What kind of elephant that the Burmese talked about ?
Ans. It was not a wild elephant but a tame one which had gone ‘must’ i.e., periodic fits of sexual passion.
Q.22. How did the elephant come-out ?
Ans. The elephant broke the chain and escaped. The Mahut was in pursuit of the elephant but was in the wrong direction.
Q.23. Describe the destructive acts of the elephant.
Ans. The elephant ravaged the bazaar. It has destroyed somebody’s bamboo hut, killed a cow, raided fruitstalls and ate up the stock. It also turned over the municipal rubbish van, forcing the driver to jump out and flee.
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