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George Orwell Centenary Quiz

To celebrate the centenary of George Orwell's birth, take our quiz to test your knowledge of all things Orwellian.

1) What was George Orwell's real name?
Eric Andrew Blair

Eric Arthur Blair

Kenneth Miles

H. Lewis Allways

2) What animal does Orwell famously describe having shot while he was serving in the Imperial Indian Police in Burma in the 1920s?
A tiger

A cow

An elephant

A dog

3) 'On the day when there was a full chamber pot under the breakfast table I decided to leave.' Orwell is here describing his experience of lodging in a tripe shop in 1936. Where was the shop?
London

Paris

Wigan

Birmingham

4) What symbol of middle-class life does Gordon Comstock constantly attack in Orwell's 1936 novel about a would-be poet's slide into poverty?
Bowler hat

Car

Furled umbrella

Aspidistra

5) In which major armed conflict of the 1930s did Orwell fight?
The Spanish Civil War

The Second World War

The Ethiopian War

The Sino-Japanese War

6) By the end of Animal Farm, the Seven Commandments issued when the animals first took over the farm have been reduced to one. What is it?
Four legs good, two legs bad

Four legs good, two legs better

All animals are equal

All animals are equal but some are more equal than others

7) ...and what name has the farm been given by Napoleon the pig?
Animal Farm

Revolution Farm

Manor Farm

Napoleon's Farm

8) What is the name of the super-state in 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' to which England (or 'Airstrip One') belongs?
Europa

Oceania

Eurasia

Atlantica

9) In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' each victim who is taken to Room 101 has to face the thing he or she most fears - the 'worst thing in the world'. What is the hero, Winston Smith, most frightened of?
Drowning

Rats

Electric shocks

Burial alive

10) On which Scottish island did Orwell rent a farmhouse towards the end of his life?
Jura

Arran

Islay

Mull
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