Multiple choice

It can be inferred from the passage that

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

But I did not want to shoot the elephant. I watched him beating his bunch of grass against his knees, with the preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have. It seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him. I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to. (Somehow it always seems worse to kill large animals.) Besides, there was the beast's owner to be considered. But I had got to act quickly. I turned to some experienced-looking people who had been there when we arrived, and asked them how the elephant had been behaving. They all said the same thing; he took no notice of you if you left him alone, but he might charge if you went too close to him.

  1. the narrator was in a moral dilemma

  2. the elephant posed a deadly threat to the narrator

  3. the narrator was afraid of the elephant's owner

  4. the elephant was very old
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Explanation

The narrator was in a moral dilemma because he did not want to kill the elephant ('But I did not want to shoot the elephant') but he also had to do something about the situation ('But I had got to act quickly').

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