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Novels after 1945

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which work of George Orwell has been translated over 40 Languages?

a)

A Clergyman's Daughter

b)

Nineteen Eighty-Four

c)

Animal Farm

d)

Burmese Days

2.

Which major war novel of Waugh is in ironic standpoint?

a)

Black Mischief

b)

A Handful of Dust

c)

Decline and Fall

d)

Sword of Honour trilogy

3.

Which 20th century writer was a philologist and professor of mediaeval language and literature?

a)

J.R.R. Tolkien

b)

George Orwell

c)

Evelyn Waugh

d)

Graham Greene

4.

Graham Greene worked in the Ministry of Information, during that time he wrote which novel?

a)

The Ministry of Fear (1943)

b)

The Man Within (1929)

c)

The Quiet American (1955)

d)

The Captain and the Enemy (1988)

5.

When did Orwell joined the Republicans in the Spanish civil war?

a)

1934

b)

1936

c)

1938

d)

1940

6.

Bilbo Baggins is the hero of which novel?

a)

The Peoples of Middle-earth

b)

The War of the Jewels

c)

The Hobbit

d)

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

7.

During the second world war Orwell worked for?

a)

BBC radio

b)

English Navy

c)

American Army

d)

Spanish Navy

8.

Which is the first novel of Graham Greene?

a)

The Power and the Glory

b)

Our Man in Havana

c)

Journey Without Maps

d)

The Living Room

9.

Which novel of Evelyn Waugh deals with a decadent aristocratic family and the powerful influence on them of the Roman Catholic faith?

a)

Black Mischief

b)

Helena

c)

Brideshead Revisted

d)

Love Among the Ruins

10.

Which novel’s protagonist of Graham Greene is a long time Police deputy commissioner?

a)

Major Henry Scobie (The Heart of the Matter)

b)

Fowler (The Quiet American)

c)

Rose (A Burnt-out Case)

d)

Pinkie (Brighton Rock)

11.

Whose pseudonym is Eric Blair?

a)

George Orwell

b)

Evelyn Waugh

c)

Graham Greene

d)

J.K.K. Tolkien

12.

George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-four was published in?

a)

1949

b)

1987

c)

1985

d)

1950

13.

George Orwell's Burmese Days, is a ?

a)

Short Fiction

b)

Fiction

c)

Non Fiction

d)

Travel Writing

14.

In the novel Nineteen Eighty-four, Big brother announced official language as?

a)

Spanish

b)

English

c)

Newspeak

d)

Brooese

15.

The confidential Agent, The Third man, Our man in Havana are Graham Greene’s novels. He used which conventions in these works?

a)

The thriller or The spy story

b)

Horror

c)

Fantasy

d)

Middle Ages Setting

16.

Which novel of Graham Greene has a nameless protagonist?

a)

A Burnt-Out Case

b)

The Power and the Glory

c)

The Quiet American

d)

The Heart of the Matter

17.

In Animal Farm, which animal create a dictatorship over the other animals?

a)

The Donkey

b)

The Pig

c)

The Horse

d)

The Sheep

18.

Which work of Graham Greene published after his death?

a)

Ways of Escape (1980)

b)

The Captain and the Enemy (1988)

c)

The End of the Affair (1951)

d)

A World of My own: A Dream Diary (1992)

19.

Animal farm is a/an?

a)

Allusion

b)

Allegory

c)

Burlesque

d)

Mock epic

20.

Which writer served in the Royal Marines during the second world war?

a)

Graham Greene

b)

Evelyn Waugh

c)

George Orwell

d)

Tolkien