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- 1. Multiple Choice
Where was George Orwell born?
Ireland
England
India
France
- 2. Multiple Choice
Why did he choose the pseudonym " George Orwell"?
George because of his father's name and Orwell because of his favourite dog
George because of Saint George and Orwell because of his mother's surname
George because of Saint George and Orwell because of the river Orwell
George because of his grandfather's name and Orwell because of his favourite place in Ireland
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is Orwell most influencial novel?
1945
2002
1984
1800
- 4. Multiple Choice
Who is the main character in 1984?
Paul Smith
Winston Brown
Winston Low
Winston Smith
- 5. Multiple Choice
1984 by George Orwell is an example of what genre of writing?
non-fiction
historical fiction
fiction - satire
- 6. Multiple Choice
The author's overall message of 1984 is...
the world is becoming bankrupt and is headed for economic collapse
the world is slowly drifting towards totalitarian government
the lower classes will overthrow the ruling classes
- 7. Multiple Choice
Satire uses
humor, exaggeration, & ridicule
mystery, suspense, fantasy
humor, fantasy, horror
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of "Big Brother is watching?"
The dictator is all powerful.
We exist in a surveillance state.
Big Brother is an evil dictator.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is dramatic irony?
When the outcome is the opposite of the expectation.
When the audience knows things the characters in the text do not know.
When what a character says is the opposite of what they mean.
- 10. Multiple Choice
1984 is an example of Dystopian Fiction. What is Dystopian Fiction?
The author envisions a future in which society is entirely corrupted and in decline.
The author envisions a glorious future for mankind.
The author writes about a dysfunctional leader.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What does the number 1984 represent?
The beginning of a new age.
The year a new dictator was predicted to emerge.
A futuristic time.
- 12. Multiple Choice
What is the name of George Orwell's last book?
Animal Farm
1984
A Hanging
- 13. Multiple Choice
What are George Orwell's two most famous books?
1984 and Animal Farm
1984 and Why I Write
Animal Farm and Why I Write
Why I Write and Burmese Days
- 14. Multiple Choice
Why did Orwell write Animal Farm?
His experiences in Spain made him a firm anti-communist
He believed the communist betrayed the socialist
Animal Farm showed his views on comminism
All the above
- 15. Multiple Choice
Why did Orwell leave the Indian Imperial police?
to become a author
to become a doctor
to open a coffee shop
to become a firefighter
- 16. Multiple Choice
Which one of Orwell´s books has banned in many countries?
Animal Farm
As I Please
Fighting in Spain
Homage to Catalonnia
- 17. Multiple Choice
What were Orwell´s common themes?
love
friendship
politics and injustice
suffering
- 18. Multiple Choice
Why did Orwell force himself into poverty?
He was tired of having alot of money
He was tired of people asking him for money
He wanted to understand it so he could write about it
He was promised money if he lived in poverty
- 19. Multiple Choice
Orwell saw writing as a powerful tool for....
propaganda
form of expression
conveying ideas
censorship
- 20. Multiple Choice
Orwell was hostile towards....
newspaper articles
censorship
propaganda
bad articles
- 21. Multiple Choice
True or False. George Orwell was born in India
True
False
- 22. Multiple Choice
True or False. Orwell was an essayist, a journalist, and a literary critic all in the same year
True
False
- 23. Multiple Choice
What job did he have while trying to become a writer?
Dishwasher
Factory worker
Teacher
Chimney Sweep
- 24. Multiple Choice
What was Hemingway’s 1st name?
Ernest
Frank
Geroge
William
- 25. Multiple Choice
How did Hemingway die?
Stabbed
Killed Himself
Artillery Shell
Car Crash
- 26. Multiple Choice
Hemingway had great respect for:
Nature
Criminals
Money
Businessmen
- 27. Multiple Choice
“The Old Man and The Sea” is about:
Money
Going after your dreams
Giving up
Only fishing
- 28. Multiple Choice
Who was Hemingway's mentor in Paris?
Sherwood Anderson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gertrude Stein
T. S. Eliot
- 29. Multiple Choice
Born in St. Louis, Missouri but became naturalized as a British subject at the age of 39
W H Auden
Stevie Smith
T S Eliot
W B Yeats
Dylan Thomas
- 30. Multiple Choice
married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, yet the marriage failed and her poor emotional health brought him to the verge of a nervous breakdown; recuperated in a Swiss Sanitorium; divorced first wife and married secretary ten years later
W H AUDEN
STEVIE SMITH
T S ELIOT
W B YEATS
DYLAN THOMAS
- 31. Multiple Choice
received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923
W H AUDEN
STEVIE SMITH
T S ELIOT
W B YEATS
DYLAN THOMAS
- 32. Multiple Choice
What is T.S Eliot's full name?
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thompson Stile Eliot
Thomas Sterns Eliot
Tom Steamers Eliot
- 33. Multiple Choice
When was T.S Eliot born?
1867
1888
1901
1894
- 34. Multiple Choice
In what other way did Eliot create his ideas?
Golf
Dance
Plays
Song-Writing
- 35. Multiple Choice'Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge.' -
Meaning = ?
Poem = ?Metaphors suggesting that the young soldiers have been crippled by the war. The soldierA direct attack on the propaganda of the time suggesting the young soldiers have been crippled by the war. Dulce et Decorum EstSimile suggesting that the homeless have entered into the war. Dulce et Decorum EstA reference to the witches from Macbeth, to make the scene more dramatic. The Soldier - 36. Multiple Choice
Which poet is probably the most credible source discussing war?
Owen Shears
Wilfred Owen
Rupert Brooke
Simon Armitage
- 37. Multiple Choice
" Dulce et Decorum est " What piece of evidence proves that the narrator thinks it is a bad idea to say "it is sweet and honorable to die for one's country"
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
In all my dreams before my helpless sight
- 38. Multiple Choice
" Dulce et Decorum est " What piece of evidence proves the main problem in the poem is people being gassed?
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
- 39. Multiple Choice
What piece of evidence shows an image of the narrator's thoughts on war." Dulce et Decorum est "
In all my dreams before my helpless sight
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
- 40. Multiple Choice
What piece of evidence proves that the soldiers are tired? " Dulce et Decorum est "
In all my dreams before my helpless sight
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
Bitter as the cud
- 41. Multiple Choice
These were rockets which were sent up to burn with a brilliant glare to light up men and other targets in the area between the front lines. " Dulce et Decorum est "
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Flares
Distant Rest
Hoots
- 42. Multiple Choice
This refers to a camp away from the front line where exhausted soldiers might rest for a few days, or longer. " Dulce et Decorum est "
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Flares
Distant Rest
Hoots
- 43. Multiple Choice
This word is referring to 5.9 calibre explosive shells. " Dulce et Decorum est "
Outstripped
Five-Nines
Gas
Helmets
- 44. Multiple Choice
This is referring to the glass in the eyepieces of the gas masks." Dulce et Decorum est "
Lime
Panes
Guttering
Cud
- 45. Multiple Choice
Which two adjoining lines of the poem show where the speaker begins to focus on the present rather than the past in" Dulce et Decorum est "?
“As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,”
“He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace”
“In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.”
“But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime…”
- 46. Multiple Choice
Which statement best summarizes the theme of the poem Dulce et Decorum est ?
It is one’s patriotic duty to fight for one’s country, regardless of how unpleasant the consequences.
Those who praise war and promote the involvement of young people are promoting a false image of glory.
Engaging in war involves tremendous sacrifice and bravery for the public good.
All possible methods of resolving conflict should be pursued before young people are asked to fight for their country.
- 47. Multiple Choice
What is the overall tone of the poem "The Soldier"?
Patriotic
Positive
Negative
Angry
- 48. Multiple ChoiceIn The Soldier, what technique is used in the quote 'A dust whom England bore, shaped...'?PersonificationSimileOnomatopoeiaPathetic fallacy
- 49. Multiple Choice
( Waiting for Godot) Where were Estragon and Vladimir told to wait?
by the ditch
sitting on the rock
by the tree
on stools
- 50. Multiple Choice
(Waiting for Godot ) To escape boredom, Vladimir and Estragon consider ___________________.
performing an occult ritual
writing a play
hanging themselves
playing soccer
- 51. Multiple Choice
(Waiting for Godot ) Vladimir gives Estragon what foods to calm his hunger?
a baguette and butter
miso soup and rice
a turnip and a carrot
a radish and bacon
- 52. Multiple ChoiceGodot arrives at the end of the second act.truefalse
- 53. Multiple Choice
Which one of the following is the setting in Act 1(Waiting for Godot )?
"A path. A tree."
"A country. A leaf."
"A road. A tree."
"A country road. A tree."
- 54. Multiple Choice
The setting changes in Act 2.(Waiting for Godot )
True
False
- 55. Multiple Choice
What is the theme of Waiting for Godot?
life is meaningless
nothingness
paranoia
life is meaningful
- 56. Multiple ChoiceJames Joyce was born in...ZurichDublinTriestParis
- 57. Multiple Choice
Who is famous for pioneering "Beat Poetry"? He also wrote the poem "America"
Sylvia Plath
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
Charles Bukowski
- 58. Multiple Choice
Who was the Irish writer whose most famous book is Ulysses?
Oscar Wilde
James Joyce
T.S. Eliot
G.B. Shaw
- 59. Multiple Choice
Virginia Wolf's "Mrs Dalloway" takes place
in the memories of the protagonist
in Cornwall
in 24 hours
during WWI
- 60. Multiple Choice
In "Mrs Dalloway", Virginia Woolf
gave voice to the feelings of all women
gave up the omniscent narrator
gave great importance to love and romance
portrayed a typical middle-aged woman
- 61. Multiple ChoiceThe idealism (belief) of the “Beat Generation” is:
Questioning of traditional values which produced a break with the mainstream culture.A pro-communist movementAn expansion of the influences of Western Consumer cultureQuestioning the values of non-western influences after World War II - 62. Multiple Choice
A flow of images and thoughts
stream of consciousness
realism
post modernism
Impressionism
- 63. Multiple Choice
In the midst and aftermath of WWI; a disorientated, wondering, and directionless generation
Beat Movement
Renaissance
Postmodernism
The Lost Generation
- 64. Multiple Choice
Post WWII; "hippie culture" -- experimentation with drugs, jazz, and sex; illumination and purification
The Lost Generation
Beat Movement
Romanticism
Revolutionary Movement
- 65. Multiple Choice
rejection of the Industrial Revolution; emphasis on the individual and nature
Neoclassicism
Romanticism
Victorian Movement
Realism
- 66. Multiple Choice
What caused the repressive and conservative political climate in the 1950s?
Recurring fear of the Germans
It was the only way to prevent a new war
Fear of Communism
Racism against Afro-Americans
- 67. Multiple Choice
What was considered as the breakthrough from the Beat Generation?
The Naked and the Dead By Norman Mailer
Howl By Allen Ginsberg
The Beat Generation By William S. Burroughs
On the Road By Jack Kerouac
- 68. Multiple Choice
What religion heavily influenced the Beat Generation writers?
Buddhism
Islamic
Christianity
Catholics
- 69. Multiple Choice
In which time did the Beat Generation emerge ?
1950-1960
1920-1935
1890-1910
1990-2010
- 70. Multiple Choice
Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' is about him and his friend.
True
False
- 71. Multiple Choice
The novel's narrator in " The Great Gatsby" is
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nick Carraway
Jay Gatsby
an unnamed omniscient narrator
- 72. Multiple Choice
True or False: Like many of his characters, Fitzgerald lived a fast-paced, reckless lifestyle.
True
False
- 73. Multiple Choice
Fitzgerald and his wife____ fell in love and blazed an "extravagant trail across the societies of both New York and Europe" .
Ziva
Zenya
Zelda
Zendaya
- 74. Multiple Choice
Who was Fitzgerald's drinking companion and literary rival?
Virginia Wolf
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dalì
Ernest Hemingway
- 75. Multiple Choice
The last part of Fitzgerald's life was spent how?
Living in the same home as his wife Zelda
Selling books instead of writing them
As one of the most successful writers in his lifetime
An unsuccessful Hollywood scriptwriter
- 76. Multiple Choice
What was the purpose of prohibition?
A complete ban on the sale of food
A complete ban on the sale of alcohol
A complete ban on the sale of clothes
A complete ban on the sale of cars
- 77. Multiple Choice
All of the following are true of F. Scott Fitzgerald except
He was a descendent of Francis Scott key, the man who the Star Spangled Banner
He was married to Zelda Sayre, on whom he based many of his characters
he was an alcoholic, but often wrote about the dangers of profligacy
he was never successful in his own time period
- 78. Multiple Choice
How was WWI different from previously fought wars?
It was the first time guns were used.
It relied on the collaborative efforts of multiple countries.
It involved the widespread use of machine guns, air power, submarines, poison gas, and armored vehicles.
It required troops to use hand-to-hand combat methods.
- 79. Multiple Choice
As a class of people, who were the "nouveau riche?"
People who came from a long-line of wealthy relatives
people who were parsimonious and didn't suffer when the stock market crashed in 1929
people who could not aford to keep up with the lavish 1920s lifestyle
people with recently acquired wealth who were often gauche or overly-ostentatious
- 80. Multiple Choice
The main obstacle for women writers is which of the following for Virginia Woolf?
the opinion of the other sex
money
her own imagination
history
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