Read the following excerpt from "shooting an elephant" by george orwell:

early one morning the sub-inspector at a police station the other end of the town rang me up on the phone and said that an elephant was ravaging the bazaar. would i come and do something about it? i did not know what i could do, but i wanted to see what was happening and i got on to a pony and started out. i took my rifle, an old 44 winchester and much too small to kill an elephant, but i thought the noise might be useful in terrorem.
based on this excerpt, what does "in terrorem" most likely mean?
a. calming fear
b. resembling fear
c. remembering fear
d. causing fear

D.Causing fear

In the excerpt the speaker is called about an elephant "ravaging the bazaar". He is asked to come and solve the problem. He says that he took his rifle but that it's too small to kill an elephant. He takes it though because he thinks "the noise might be useful". He is hoping that the sound of the rifle will chase off the elephant because it will cause fear in it.

which speech are you talking about?

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.