1.true
or false: |
| 1)
Orwell first gives information about his early
development because he thinks that one cannot
evaluate a writer’s motives without such background
knowledge. |
true
False |
2)
All the following led him to become a writer:
a. his loneliness
b. his reading of various literary works
c. his constant literary endeavours
|
true
False |
| 3)
For fifteen years or more, Orwell wrote a story
about himself. |
true
False |
| 4)
Although Orwell now objects to purple passages,
they were once a great temptation for him as can
be seen in his first completed novel, Burmese
Days. |
true
False |
| 5)
The clause ‘The lines from Paradise Lost … sent
shivers down my backbone’s means that these lines
struck fear into him. |
true
False |
| 6)
From his list of the ‘great motives’ for writing,
Orwell excludes ‘the need to earn a living’, because
in his view it is not a motive. |
true
False |
| 7)
Orwell believes that talented people have individual
ambition which is a motive to drive them on. |
true
False |
| 8)
According to Orwell, all writers, even writers
of railway guides, have aesthetic considerations.
|
true
False |
| 9)
The four motives do not carry the same weight
in a writer. |
true
False |
10)
All the following caused Orwell to write for political
purposes:
a. his job in Burma
b. his experience of poverty and his sense of
failure
c. his nature
d. Hitler and the Spanish civil war
|
|
true
False |
| 11) Orwell
thinks that in tumultuous revolutionary ages no
writer can avoid writing of political subjects.
|
true
False |
| 12) Orwell
says that even though he writes ‘because there
is some lie … to expose …’, he is still vitally
concerned with his writing style. |
true
False |
| 13) When
writing Homage to Catalonia, Orwell’s first concern
is political. |
true
False |
| 14) The
language in his later works is more flowery and
less precise. |
true
False |
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