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GATE 2024 XH2 (English) – Question 31

History of English Literature and Literary Studies · English Literary Traditions across Time: Chaucer to contemporary English literature · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Eric Arthur Blair was born in Motihari, Bihar. He went on to become famous as an author of a dystopian work which introduced the terms ‘Newspeak’, ‘Thoughtcrime’, and ‘Doublespeak’. He wrote under the pseudonym _______ .

  1. Ruskin Bond
  2. George Orwell
  3. Rudyard Kipling
  4. E. M. Forster

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Correct answer: (B) George Orwell

Explanation

Eric Blair wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four as George Orwell.