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EXERCISES 2 Ⅰ. Write short notes on: Marrakech and Morocco.　 Suggested Reference Books [SRB]　 1. any standard gazetteer　 2. Encyclopaedia BritannicaⅡ.Questions on content:　 1. Instead of telling the reader that the natives are poor, Orwell shows poverty in at least five ways. Identify them.　 2. How are people buried in Marrakech?　 3. Explain the sentence, All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact.(para 3)　 4. What do you think medieval ghettoes were like?　 5. Why does the writer say, A good job Hitler wasnt here?　 6. What kind of people, according to Orwell, are partly invisible? Why does he stress this point?　 7. How was land cultivated in Morocco?　 8. Why was the old woman surprised when the writer gave her a five-sou piece?　 9. What did every white man think when he saw a black army marching past?Ⅲ. Questions on appreciation:　 1. The things of value, Orwell says in Why I Write, are always political. Is this essay political? Has the writer said anything of value?　 2. Orwell describes human suffering and misery rather objectively. How then can you tell that he is outraged at the spectacle of misery?　 3. Why does the writer reveal his feelings about the donkeys but conceal his feelings about the people? ,What effect does this contrast have on the reader?　 4. Could paras 4-7 just as well come after 8-15 as before? Could other groups of paragraphs be rearranged? What does this indicate about the organization? What gives the essay coherence?　 5. Does this essay give readers a new insight into imperialism? Has the writer succeeded in showing that imperialism is an evil thing ?　 6. Comment on Orwells lucid style and fine attention to significant descriptive details.Ⅳ. Paraphrase:　 1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. (para 2)　 2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact. (para 3)　 3. They rise out Of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, an