George Orwell Video/Questions

According to Orwell, what is the only reason literature exists?

• to make people happy
• to inspire the world
• to change the world
• to define true love

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What was NOT a part of Orwell's childhood?

• Attending a mean-spirited English prep school
• Being born into an upper class English family
• Being born in India to civil servant parents

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Why did Orwell dislike "INTELLECTUALS"?

• they were disconnected from society
• they were unpatriotic and sexually frustrated
• they reminded him of what he disliked about himself
• all of the above

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What term did Orwell use to describe people with little education or means who raise families, work hard, and have fun when they can?

• Everyman
• Ordinary Life
• Middle class
• The Joneses

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Orwell said, "People who work with their hands are..."

• heroic
• essential
• uneducated
• invisible

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True or false: Orwell used an extremely simple style of writing absent of any "fancy language".

• True
• False

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What form did Orwell use to write about revolutions in Animal Farm?

• play
• poem
• fable
• farce

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According to Orwell, what were the most dangerous governments in global society?

• Obvious dictatorships
• Democracies that only appear to give freedom while silently oppressing the people

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