Assignment No.

Subject:
English Grammar & Composition

Submitted To:
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Muneeb Mehta

Submitted By:
Daniyal Ghafoor
E22BBA046
(Section-A)

HALLEY COLLEGE OF BANKING & FINANCE

UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB, LAHORE.
 Topic: The Damned Human Race
Questions & Answers
1. Man is usually called ‘the highest animal’ on the basis of intelligence. What
are the specific traits that make him the ‘lowest animal’ for Twain?

Page No. (1, 2 & 3)

2. How does Twain try to shock the readers? What might be his purpose in using
this technique?
Page No. (3 & 4)

3. Point out some of the examples of political and religious atrocities referred to
in the essay by the author. Has Twain gone overboard here? Or does Man
deserve this attack?
Page No. (4, 5 & 6)

4. This essay was written in the early 1900s’. It is true today? Heave people
improved in a century’s time?
Page No. (6 & 7)
Idioms
Back to square one (go) Page No. 7

Back to the drawing board (go) Page No. 8

Back to the wall, have one’s Page No. 8

Backhanded compliment Page No. 8

Back-seat driver Page No. 9

Bad blood Page No. 9

Bark up the wrong tree Page No. 9

Bats in one’s belfry Page No. 9

Beat a dead horse Page No. 10