What is the central idea of this passage? A. Smithson’s project took many years to fund and build.
B. Smithson was a wealthy aristocrat well-known in Great Britain.
C. The U. S. and Great Britain were in conflict over Smithson’s fortune.
D. Smithson founded one of the greatest American institutions of knowledge.

answer: the essay describes the experience of the english narrator, possibly orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in burma.

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the answer is: the start of world war i, and russia’s hopes of benefiting from it

during world war i russian joined due to in their current crisis they were being supported by france and the war was already declared to them by germany, they needed to maintain their political goal and leadership role in the balkans, and is the same feeling that this excerpt evoke the eager of maintain the land value.

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