Marrakech by George Orwell

Question 1

When was the essay ‘Marrakech’ written?

Answer 1

1939

Question 2

What genre is the essay?

Answer 2

Travel writing

Question 3

Which empire colonised Morocco at this time?

Answer 3

French empire

Question 4

In the opening section the flies leave the restaurant in a ____________?

Answer 4

Cloud

Question 5

What does the line “no gravestone, no name, no identifying mark” reveal about the dead.

Answer 5

Dehumanised/ no identity

Question 6

In section two Orwell is feeding a _______.

Answer 6

Gazelle

Question 7

The navvy worker begs for food and Orwell uses an emphatic, short sentence: “This man is an employee of the __________________.

Answer 7

Municipality

Question 8

In the Jewish quarter there is a little ____________.

Answer 8

River of urine

Question 9

The children are compared to …

Answer 9

clusters of flies

Question 10

There are no windows in the Jewish quarter, what is this symbolic of?

Answer 10

No hope.

Question 11

The machinery used is described as ___________.

Answer 11

Prehistoric

Question 12

What is it that creates a frenzied rush in the caves as the Jews were “clamouring for a ____________?”

Answer 12

Cigarette

Question 13

The Jews are marginalised and forced to live in ____________.

Answer 13

Ghettoes

Question 14

Prejudice towards Jews is called ______________.

Answer 14

Anti-Semitism

Question 15

All people who work with their hands are _______.

Answer 15

Invisible

Question 16

The women are mistreated in Marrakech due to culture. They are forced to work and are all _______ with age and sun.

Answer 16

Mummified

Question 17

Orwell uses ____________ language to evoke sympathy as he describes them as “poor old creatures” “bent double.”

Answer 17

Emotive

Question 18

The environment in Marrakech is a hostile ____________ that no animal bigger than hare can live.

Answer 18

Wasteland

Question 19

In the final section Orwell sees a line of ___________ soldiers marching towards Europe.

Answer 19

Senegalese

Question 20

The soldiers’ “splendid” bodies are hidden in reach-me-down uniforms and their feet have been squashed into boots that look like blocks of _________.

Answer 20

Wood

Question 21

Orwell is incredulous when the a soldier looks at him with respect rather than hostility. It shows they ______ their oppression.

Answer 21

Accept

Question 22

Orwell points out the inevitable ending of imperialist: “How long before they turn their ___________ in the other direction?”

Answer 22

Guns

Question 23

In the final two lines of the essay the white imperialists are compared to “great ________ _______.”

Answer 23

white birds

Question 24

The great white birds “_________” over them in the opposite direction. (hint: it suggests a lack of purpose)

Answer 24

Drift

Question 25

A contrast is created in the final two lines as the great white birds were “glittering like ____________”

Answer 25

scraps of paper

Question 26

Do they even have names? Or are they merely a kind of _______________ brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects?

Answer 26

undifferentiated