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……… Class 5A Date 10/05/2019

1. Choose the best alternative to complete each sentence.

1. James Joyce was educated at home by his father, a famous man of letters of the time / at a Jesuit school in
Dublin.
2. He was a rebel and like Yeats, he tried to rediscover Irish Celtic identity referring to its past / he thought
of himself as a European rather than an Irishman.
3. The publication of Dubliner and of A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man established him as a writer /
gave him relief from his financial problems
4. His novel Ulysses was an immediate financial success / accused of obscenity and published later both in
the USA and in England.
5. When World War II began, Joyce went to live in Switzerland, where he died in 1941 / went back to Ireland
where he spent the rest of his life.

2. Decide whether the following sentences are true or false. Correct the false ones
1. Dubliners gives a psychologically realistic picture of the way lower-middle class Dubliners actually lived. T F
2. The characters in the short stories suffer from the effects of political and economic forces on
their lives. T F
3. Dubliners consists of fifteen short-stories which disclose moments of intensity and of spiritual
revelation though they lack obvious actions. T F
4. The ‘epiphany’ originates from a moment of particular significance in the character’s mind. T F
5. The paralysis which affects the characters is physical. T F
6. The revelation of the characters’ paralysis is the starting point of each story. T F
7. Each story is seen from the point of view of an external narrator. T F
8. The linguistic register is varied and suits each character. T F
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3. Decide whether the following sentences are true or false.

1. At Eton, Orwell began to develop an independent-minded personality and professed atheism
and socialism. T F
2. When he came back to London after his experience in Burma, he directly experienced poverty
and learned how institutions for the poor worked. T F
3. As regards theme, in his novels Orwell gave an idealized view of the poor. T F

4. Choose the best alternative to complete the following sentences.

1. Orwell’s life and works were characterised by the conflict between his bourgeois education and his
emotional identification with the working class / the prejudice against the working class deriving from his
bourgeois origins and education.
2.Orwell wanted to write naturalistic novels with unhappy endings / novels that served a social function.
3. In his choice of social themes, Orwell was indebted to Swift / Dickens.
4. Orwell believed that the writer should be concerned with everything that could alter social status /
value social purpose and content over form.
5. He described the artificiality of urban civilization / warned against the artificiality of urban civilization.
4. Fill in the blanks in the text with the words below.

power conceptualizing political Newspeak disobedient expressing number

modern-day society messages English refining goal thoughts citizens absolute
words alter structures idea

In ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ Orwell portrays the perfect totalitarian _______________ [1], the most
extreme realization of a _______________ [2] government with absolute ________________ [3]. The
Party uses a __________________ [4] of techniques to control its ________________ [5]. One of
Orwell’s most important ____________________ [6] in Nineteen Eighty-Four is that language is of
central importance to human thought because it _________________________ [7] and limits the
ideas that individuals are capable of formulating and ____________________ [8]. If control of
language were centralized in a _______________________ [9] agency, Orwell suggests, this could
possibly ___________________________ [10] the very structure of language to make it impossible to
even conceive any ____________________ [11] or rebellious _____________________ [12], because
there would be no __________________ [13] with which to think of them. This
___________________ [14] manifests itself in the language of ________________ [15], which the Party
has introduced to replace __________________ [16]. The Party is constantly __________________ [17]
and perfecting Newspeak, with the ultimate __________________ [18] that no one will be capable of
________________ [19] anything that might question the Party’s ______________ [20] power.

Total score ___/40