George Orwell - Quiz
George Orwell
  • 1. In which year was George Orwell born?
A) 1910
B) 1945
C) 1920
D) 1903
  • 2. What is George Orwell's real name?
A) George Herman Ruth Jr.
B) Alexander Pushkin
C) Winston Churchill
D) Eric Arthur Blair
  • 3. Where was George Orwell born?
A) England
B) India
C) USA
D) France
  • 4. Which war did George Orwell fight in?
A) World War I
B) Spanish Civil War
C) Vietnam War
D) Gulf War
  • 5. Which other famous author was a close friend of George Orwell?
A) J.K. Rowling
B) Jane Austen
C) Stephen King
D) Aldous Huxley
  • 6. What is the subtitle of George Orwell's novel 'Animal Farm'?
A) A Science Fiction Novel
B) A Fairy Story
C) A Thriller
D) A Historical Biography
  • 7. What is the first name of the protagonist in '1984'?
A) Rick
B) Winston
C) Tom
D) Sam
  • 8. What was George Orwell's job in Burma?
A) Architect
B) Pilot
C) Police Officer
D) Chef
  • 9. What is the name of the farm in the novel 'Animal Farm'?
A) Manor Farm
B) Green Pastures Farm
C) Happy Farm
D) Paradise Meadows Farm
  • 10. What is the fictional language created by George Orwell in '1984'?
A) Dreamwords
B) Wordplay
C) Cooltalk
D) Newspeak
  • 11. What is the name of the leader of Animal Farm?
A) Alexander
B) Julius
C) Abraham
D) Napoleon
  • 12. In which year did George Orwell pass away?
A) 1950
B) 1970
C) 1960
D) 1980
  • 13. What pen name did Eric Arthur Blair use for his writing?
A) George Orwell
B) Arthur Orwell
C) E.A. Blair
D) Eric Blair
  • 14. In which year was George Orwell's dystopian novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' published?
A) 1945
B) 1950
C) 1949
D) 1938
  • 15. What is the title of George Orwell's work that documents his experience in industrial Northern England?
A) The Road to Wigan Pier
B) Homage to Catalonia
C) Nineteen Eighty-Four
D) Animal Farm
  • 16. Which term, coined by George Orwell, describes totalitarian and authoritarian social practices?
A) Doublethink
B) Orwellian
C) Newspeak
D) Big Brother
  • 17. Who was George Orwell's principal tutor at Eton?
A) A. S. F. Gow
B) Steven Runciman
C) Aldous Huxley
D) Cyril Connolly
  • 18. What was George Orwell's father's occupation in the Indian Civil Service?
A) Doctor
B) Teacher
C) Lawyer
D) Sub-Deputy Opium Agent
  • 19. Where did Eric Blair first meet Cyril Connolly?
A) Henley-on-Thames school
B) Eton College
C) Wellington College
D) St Cyprian's School
  • 20. Which school did George Orwell attend as a day student at age five?
A) Wellington College
B) Eton College
C) St Cyprian's School
D) A Catholic convent in Henley-on-Thames
  • 21. What was the relationship between George Orwell and Jacintha Buddicom?
A) Cousins
B) Teacher-student
C) Adolescent sweethearts
D) Classmates only
  • 22. Which school did Eric Blair attend after St Cyprian's and before Eton?
A) Shiplake College
B) Harrow School
C) Wellington College
D) Henley Grammar School
  • 23. What was the name of George Orwell's essay based on his time at St Cyprian's?
A) Such, Such Were the Joys
B) Homage to Catalonia
C) The Road to Wigan Pier
D) Animal Farm
  • 24. Which of George Orwell's works is an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War?
A) The Road to Wigan Pier
B) Nineteen Eighty-Four
C) Homage to Catalonia
D) Animal Farm
  • 25. What was George Orwell's family background described as?
A) Upper-class
B) Middle-class
C) Lower-upper-middle class
D) Working-class
  • 26. What was the name of George Orwell's first published magazine at Eton?
A) College Days
B) The Election Times
C) Bubble and Squeak
D) Eton Wall Game
  • 27. Which university did George Orwell not attend due to financial constraints?
A) Cambridge University
B) University of London
C) None, he did not go to university
D) Oxford University
  • 28. What was the profession of George Orwell's grandfather, Thomas Richard Arthur Blair?
A) Teacher
B) Anglican clergyman
C) Opium agent
D) Lawyer
  • 29. In which year did George Orwell join the Indian Imperial Police in Burma?
A) 1919
B) 1930
C) 1925
D) 1922
  • 30. What was the name of the ship on which George Orwell sailed to Burma?
A) SS Empire
B) SS India
C) SS Britannia
D) SS Herefordshire
  • 31. Where did George Orwell receive his police training in Burma?
A) Rangoon
B) Maymyo
C) Mandalay
D) Katha
  • 32. What was the monthly salary of George Orwell when he completed his training?
A) Rs. 800
B) Rs. 740
C) Rs. 600
D) Rs. 525
  • 33. Which town in Burma was known for having the refinery of the Burmah Oil Company?
A) Moulmein
B) Maymyo
C) Syriam
D) Katha
  • 34. What did George Orwell adopt in Burma that he kept for the rest of his life?
A) A beard
B) Sideburns
C) No facial hair
D) A pencil moustache
  • 35. What did George Orwell's tattoos look like?
A) Dragon designs on his arms
B) Small untidy blue circles on each knuckle
C) Crosses on his wrists
D) Stars on his shoulders
  • 36. In which month and year did George Orwell resign from the Indian Imperial Police?
A) September 1926
B) July 1927
C) March 1928
D) December 1929
  • 37. Which novel by George Orwell was based on his experiences in the Burma police?
A) Animal Farm
B) Burmese Days
C) 1984
D) Homage to Catalonia
  • 38. What did George Orwell write about his experience of executing a prisoner?
A) "A Hanging"
B) "Shooting an Elephant"
C) Burmese Days
D) Keep the Aspidistra Flying
  • 39. Which ethnic group's churches did George Orwell attend in Burma?
A) Karen
B) Indian
C) Chinese
D) Burmese
  • 40. What was the name of the town where George Orwell's maternal grandmother lived?
A) Moulmein
B) Maymyo
C) Rangoon
D) Katha
  • 41. Which author did Orwell consider to be about as good a novelist as one can be today, despite holding 'untenable opinions'?
A) Graham Greene
B) Mark Twain
C) Herman Melville
D) Evelyn Waugh
  • 42. Which city did Orwell visit quickly after his stay in Wigan?
A) Barnsley
B) Sheffield
C) Manchester
D) Liverpool
  • 43. Who described George Orwell and Richard Rees as 'moth-eaten and prematurely aged'?
A) Mabel Fierz
B) Elizaveta Fen
C) Cyril Connolly
D) Rosalind Obermeyer
  • 44. Which political leader's military uprising concerned Orwell in 1936?
A) Francisco Franco
B) Oswald Mosley
C) Harry Pollitt
D) John Strachey
  • 45. Who visited Orwell in March 1949 at the sanatorium?
A) Sonia Brownell
B) Eileen Blair
C) Celia Kirwan
D) Ann Popham
  • 46. Where did George Orwell return to England from in December 1929?
A) London
B) Paris
C) Southwold
D) Bramley
  • 47. Which journal published George Orwell's first article as a professional writer?
A) Monde
B) Le Progrès Civique
C) New Adelphi
D) G. K.'s Weekly
  • 48. Which government department did Celia Kirwan work for when she visited Orwell?
A) Foreign Office
B) Home Office
C) Information Research Department (IRD)
D) Ministry of Defence
  • 49. What was the title of George Orwell's first published essay in English?
A) "La Censure en Angleterre"
B) "A Farthing Newspaper"
C) "How the Poor Die"
D) "The Spike"
  • 50. Who helped Orwell secure accommodation on the island of Jura?
A) Barbara Ward
B) E. H. Carr
C) David Astor
D) Isaac Deutscher
  • 51. Who ran the second-hand bookshop where Orwell worked?
A) Jon Kimche
B) Nellie Limouzin
C) Richard Rees
D) Francis and Myfanwy Westrope
  • 52. In which year was Orwell listed at number 8 on the BBC's The Big Read poll?
A) 2011
B) 1984
C) 2003
D) 2021
  • 53. Who complimented George Orwell's 'clarity and good sense' in a review of 'Down and Out in Paris and London'?
A) Max Plowman
B) Richard Rees
C) Cecil Day-Lewis
D) T. S. Eliot
  • 54. Which magazine accepted George Orwell's work "The Spike" for publication?
A) Monde
B) Le Progrès Civique
C) New Adelphi
D) G. K.'s Weekly
  • 55. Which hospital did George Orwell go to when he fell seriously ill in February 1929?
A) Rue du Pot de Fer Clinic
B) Southwold General Hospital
C) Hôpital Cochin
D) Portobello Road Hospital
  • 56. Who found George Orwell a flat in Parliament Hill?
A) Mabel Fierz
B) Rosalind Obermeyer
C) Francis Westrope
D) Nellie Limouzin
  • 57. Which novel did George Orwell's experiences at the bookshop contribute to?
A) Keep the Aspidistra Flying
B) Animal Farm
C) Burmese Days
D) 1984
  • 58. Where did Orwell move to live on 22 May 1946?
A) Shanghai
B) London
C) Manchester
D) Barnhill, Jura
  • 59. What was the title of George Orwell's first article to appear in England?
A) "A Farthing Newspaper"
B) "How the Poor Die"
C) "La Censure en Angleterre"
D) "The Spike"
  • 60. What illness did George Orwell contract after a motorcycle trip that developed into pneumonia?
A) A chill
B) Influenza
C) Tuberculosis
D) Bronchitis
  • 61. Where did George Orwell settle back into after returning to England?
A) The family home at Southwold
B) A cottage near Cambridge
C) An apartment in Paris
D) A flat in London
  • 62. Who was the clergyman's daughter that George Orwell became acquainted with in Southwold?
A) Mabel Fierz
B) Eleanor Jacques
C) Ruth Pitter
D) Brenda Salkeld
  • 63. What new medicine was used to treat Orwell's tuberculosis?
A) Aspirin
B) Streptomycin
C) Penicillin
D) Morphine
  • 64. What was the side effect Orwell experienced from streptomycin treatment?
A) Toxic epidermal necrolysis
B) Anemia
C) Diabetes
D) Hypertension
  • 65. Who did Orwell marry on 9 June 1936?
A) Joan Rees
B) Sylvia Townsend Warner
C) Aunt Nellie
D) Eileen O'Shaughnessy
  • 66. What type of man did Orwell associate the face he saw in Dickens's writing with?
A) An indifferent observer
B) A nineteenth-century liberal, a free intelligence
C) A religious zealot
D) A conservative traditionalist
  • 67. Where did George Orwell stay when he first arrived in Manchester?
A) A common lodging-house
B) At Aunt Nellie's cottage
C) Over a tripe shop
D) In Wigan
  • 68. What was the reason Victor Gollancz turned down 'Burmese Days'?
A) Potential suits for libel
B) Poor writing quality
C) Financial constraints
D) Lack of interest in the subject matter
  • 69. What activity did Orwell enjoy outside of writing, as revealed four years later?
A) Cooking
B) Hunting
C) Gardening
D) Fishing
  • 70. Which publishing house published 'Down and Out in Paris and London' on 9 January 1933?
A) Victor Gollancz Ltd
B) Harper & Brothers
C) Faber & Faber
D) Adelphi
  • 71. In which arrondissement of Paris did George Orwell live during early 1928?
A) 7th arrondissement
B) 9th arrondissement
C) 5th arrondissement
D) 3rd arrondissement
  • 72. Who were George Orwell's flatmates at 50 Lawford Road?
A) Francis Westrope and Myfanwy Westrope
B) Jon Kimche and Richard Rees
C) Michael Sayers and Rayner Heppenstall
D) Rosalind Obermeyer and Elizaveta Fen
  • 73. Which author did Orwell describe as a 'good bad poet'?
A) Rudyard Kipling
B) G. K. Chesterton
C) Evelyn Waugh
D) Henry Miller
  • 74. What did Gollancz add to 'The Road to Wigan Pier' while Orwell was in Spain?
A) A disculpatory preface
B) A chapter on the Spanish Civil War
C) A foreword by Richard Rees
D) An introduction by John McNair
  • 75. What was the subject that became George Orwell's obsessive focus in his writings?
A) Literature
B) Politics
C) Poverty
D) War
  • 76. What was Sonia Brownell's health condition when she settled out of court in 1980?
A) She was in perfect health
B) She had fully recovered
C) She was hospitalized
D) She was becoming increasingly ill
  • 77. Which writer did Orwell criticize for devoting himself to 'Roman Catholic propaganda'?
A) Ralph Waldo Emerson
B) G. K. Chesterton
C) George Gissing
D) Arthur Koestler
  • 78. Which writer did George Orwell mention as the modern writer who influenced him most?
A) D. H. Lawrence
B) T. S. Eliot
C) James Joyce
D) W. Somerset Maugham
  • 79. Which organization was Orwell mistakenly thought to need papers from for crossing into Spain?
A) Some left-wing organisation
B) The Communist Party of Great Britain
C) The Special Branch
D) The Independent Labour Party
  • 80. In what year was Orwell's essay 'British Cookery' discovered in the British Council's archives?
A) 1946
B) 2019
C) 2000
D) 1984
  • 81. Which author did George Orwell admire and imitate when exploring poorer parts of London?
A) Ruth Pitter
B) Jack London
C) Max Plowman
D) Henri Barbusse
  • 82. What was the name of the tea-house run by George Orwell's sister Avril in Southwold?
A) A bakery
B) A café
C) A bookstore
D) A tea-house
  • 83. What did Orwell's list, given to Celia Kirwan, consist mainly of?
A) Anti-war activists
B) Writers with pro-communist leanings
C) Communist leaders
D) British politicians
  • 84. Where did George Orwell live while working at the bookshop?
A) University College London
B) Parliament Hill
C) Lawford Road, Kentish Town
D) Warwick Mansions, Pond Street
  • 85. What was the name of the group Orwell was a leading figure in?
A) British Authors Society
B) London Writers' Guild
C) Leftist Journalists Union
D) Shanghai Club
  • 86. When did George Orwell stop working at Booklovers' Corner?
A) Beginning of February 1935
B) End of January 1936
C) August 1935
D) June 1935
  • 87. Who shared the job with George Orwell at Booklovers' Corner?
A) Cyril Connolly
B) Richard Rees
C) Mabel Fierz
D) Jon Kimche
  • 88. What type of writing did George Orwell continually support himself through?
A) Playwriting
B) Book-reviewing
C) Novel-writing
D) Poetry
  • 89. Which illness did Orwell suffer from in February 1946?
A) Pneumonia
B) Bronchitis
C) Tubercular haemorrhage
D) Influenza
  • 90. What was the name of the cartoonist who drew strips for Animal Farm?
A) Charles Schulz
B) Norman Pett
C) Gary Larson
D) Jim Davis
  • 91. Where was the Adelphi Summer School held in 1936?
A) Manchester
B) Wigan
C) Langham
D) Sheffield
  • 92. Who gave George Orwell social and financial support while he lived in Paris?
A) Henri Barbusse
B) Max Plowman
C) His aunt Ellen (Nellie) Kate Limouzin
D) Ruth Pitter
  • 93. Where did Orwell go for a sanatorium treatment in January 1949?
A) Manchester
B) London
C) Cranham, Gloucestershire
D) Shanghai
  • 94. Who helped George Orwell find lodgings when he moved to London?
A) Ellen Limouzin
B) Ruth Pitter
C) Henri Barbusse
D) John Middleton Murry
  • 95. Who diagnosed Orwell with tuberculosis in December 1947?
A) Dr. John Smith
B) David Astor
C) An unnamed local doctor
D) A chest specialist from Glasgow
  • 96. Who did Orwell apply to unsuccessfully for papers to go to Spain?
A) John McNair
B) Harry Pollitt
C) Frank Meade
D) Victor Gollancz
  • 97. Which author did Orwell NOT mention in his essay on Charles Dickens?
A) Defoe
B) Fielding
C) Hemingway
D) Swift
  • 98. What was the name of Orwell's cottage in Wallington, Hertfordshire?
A) Headingley House
B) The Stores
C) Bryn Hall
D) Langham Cottage
  • 99. Which coal mine did Orwell visit in Wigan?
A) Bryn Hall
B) Headingley
C) Grimethorpe
D) Langham
  • 100. What was the title of George Orwell's essay based on his experiences at Hôpital Cochin?
A) "La Censure en Angleterre"
B) "A Farthing Newspaper"
C) "The Spike"
D) "How the Poor Die"
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