1. Which of the following works is reviewed in George Orwell’s essay, Inside the Whale?
1. Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer
2. James Joyce’s Ulysses
3. D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
4. Anais Nin’s Delta of Venus
ANSWER:1
2. Politics and the English Language is an essay by :
(A) F.R. Leavis
(B) Terry Eagleton
(C) George Orwell
(D) Raymond Williams
ANSWER:C
3. “Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books.” To which of the following authors can we attribute the above admission?
(A) Graham Greene
(B) George Orwell
(C) Charles Morgan
(D) Evelyn Waugh
ANSWER:B
4. In his well-known essay “Politics and the English Language”, George Orwell provides representative examples of what common faults?
(1) Staleness of imagery and lack of precision
(2) Lack of precision and incorrect formatting
(3) Incorrect formatting and staleness of imagery
(4) Staleness of precision and lack of imagery
ANSWER:1
5. In “Politics and the English Language” George Orwell provides a list of rules to aid in curing the English language. What is the final rule?
(1) Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
(2) Never use a long word where a short one will do.
(3) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
(4) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
ANSWER:4
6. “Can one imagine any private soldier, in the nineties or now, reading Barrack-Room Ballads and feeling that here was a writer who spoke for him ? It is very hard to do so. [….] When he is writing not of British but of “loyal” Indians he carries the ‘Salaam, Sahib’motif to sometimes disgusting lengths. Yet it remains true that he has far more interest in the common soldier, far more anxiety that he shall get a fair deal, than most of the “liberals” of his day and our own. He sees that the soldier is neglected, meanly underpaid and hypocritically despised by the people whose incomes he safeguards”.
(A) This is E. M. Forster’s “India, Again”.
(B) This is Malcolm Muggeridge on E. M. Forster’s India.
(C) This is T. S. Eliot on Rudyard Kipling.
(D) This is George Orwell on Rudyard Kipling.
ANSWER:D
7. Years before, Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopia, Nineteen Eighty Four got an evidence of the party’s dishonesty. What is it ?
(1) Emmanuel Goldstein’s confession that he is a party operative; not an enemy of the party.
(2) O’ Brien’s diary entry hinting at the non-existence of Big Brother.
(3) A photograph which proves that some citizen accused of a crime was out of the country while it was committed.
(4) A colleague’s revelation that the Inner Party members have systematically destroyed all historical documents and created false documents.
ANSWER:3
8. Which of the following works is reviewed in George Orwell’s essay, Inside the Whale?
1. Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer
2. James Joyce’s Ulysses
3. D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
4. Anais Nin’s Delta of Venus
ANSWER:1
9. In “Politics and the English Language” which two of the following ‘tricks’ are mentioned by George Orwell as ‘bad habits’ of English use?
A. obsolete words
B. pretentious diction
C. dying metaphors
D. false modifiers
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- A and B only B.
- B and C only
- C. B and D only
- D. C and D only
ANSWER:B
10. Who is the author of the essay “Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool”
A. Aldous Huxley
B. George Orwell
C. Somerset Maugham
D. D.
ANSWER:B
11. The “grammar bullies” – you read them in places like the New York Times – and they tell you what is correct.
You must never use “hopefully, we will be going there on Thursday.” That is incorrect and wrong and you are basically an ignorant pig if you say it. This is judgementalism . The game that is being played there is a game of social class. It has nothing do with the morality of writing and speaking and thinking clearly, of which George Orwell, for instance, talked so well.
To which famous essay of Orwell does the author refer here ?
1. “Inside the Whale”
2. “Politics and the English Language
3. “Reflections on Gandhi”
4. “Why I Write”
ANSWER:2