Orwell

What was George Orwell’s real name?

• George Elliot

• D. H. Lawrence

• Joe Bloggs

• Eric Blair

In which colony was Orwell a policeman?

• India

• Australia

• Burma

• Kenya

What job did Orwell take in Paris?

• Journalist

• Street sweeper

• Diplomat

• Dish washer

Orwell wrote a book on poverty called: “The road to Wigan Pier”. What is a pier?

• A coal mine

• A dock for boats

• An unemployment office

• A crane for goods

Answer explanation

The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II.

Orwell served as a soldier and was wounded in what conflict?

• The Spanish Civil War

• The Second World War

• The First world war

• The Russian Revolution

Answer explanation

In May of 1937, in a trench on a windswept ridge near Huesca, Orwell was shot through the neck by a sniper.

In the second world war Orwell served as...

• a front line solder

• a spy

• a BBC journalist

• an intelligence officer

In Animal Farm the Pig Snowball represents...

• Stalin

• Hitler

• Franco

• Trotsky

Answer explanation

Snowball represents Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was a political theorist, revolutionary and a leader of the Red Army. After the Revolution he was involved in Russian foreign affairs and policy making. He opposed Stalin's decisions and eventually was forced into exile from the Soviet Union in 1929.

In Animal Farm the Crow represents...

• The secret Police

• The Church

• The Communist Party

• The Red Army

Answer explanation

Moses. The tame raven who spreads stories of Sugarcandy Mountain, the paradise to which animals supposedly go when they die. Moses plays only a small role in Animal Farm, but Orwell uses him to explore how communism exploits religion as something with which to pacify the oppressed.

What is the most famous sentence in Animal Farm?

• All animals are equal.

• Four legs good, two legs bad.

• All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

• Workers of the world unite you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Orwell's last book 1984 is best known for one sentence too, which is it?

• Power is the ultimate aim of dictatorship.

• Confession is not betrayal.

• Big brother is watching you.

• Forced to choose between liberty and happiness most will choose happiness.

Answer explanation

In the society that Orwell describes, every citizen is under constant surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens (with the exception of the Proles). The people are constantly reminded of this by the slogan "Big Brother is watching you": a maxim that is ubiquitously on display throughout the novel.