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Grade 11 · World literature

World literature quiz for grade 11: Orwell's 1984 and dystopias

This quiz helps revise “Orwell's 1984 and dystopias” in World literature for grade 11. It has 25 questions in five categories: Inside 1984, Language & Control, People & Traps, Other Dystopias, Form & Context. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 16–17
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Orwell's 1984 and dystopias

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Inside 1984

  1. 100

    What is the name of the clerk who secretly rebels against the Party?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which superstate contains London in the novel?

  3. 300

    Where does the protagonist…

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  4. 400

    Which social group does…

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  5. 500

    What is the name…

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Language & Control

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What wall device both broadcasts propaganda and can watch or listen to citizens?

  2. 200

    What official language is designed to make unorthodox ideas harder to express by shrinking vocabulary?

  3. 300

    Which secret service hunts…

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  4. 400

    What term means accepting…

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  5. 500

    What is the name…

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People & Traps

  1. 100

    What symbolic leader appears everywhere as the face of the Party?

  2. 200

    What is the first name of the young Fiction Department worker who becomes the protagonist's lover?

  3. 300

    Which Inner Party official…

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  4. 400

    Who is portrayed as…

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  5. 500

    What chamber confronts each…

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Other Dystopias

  1. 100Picture for the question

    In which novel does fireman Guy Montag burn books before turning against his society?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    In which 1932 novel are citizens conditioned from birth and pacified with the drug soma?

  3. 300

    Which novel is told…

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  4. 400

    Which 1985 novel depicts…

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  5. 500

    Which 1962 novel about…

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Form & Context

  1. 100

    In what month and year was 1984 first published?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What was the birth name of the writer known by the pen name George Orwell?

  3. 300

    What genre imagines a…

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  4. 400

    What political system seeks…

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  5. 500

    What literary mode uses…

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