Part One- Chapter One Quiz

1984 PART ONE- CHAPTER ONE QUIZ /15 (16 possible) 1. What time were the clocks striking at the opening of the book? 2. What phrase is underneath the giant posters? 3. What is the protagonist’s name? 4. Name two of the three party slogans. 5. Name two of the four ministries into which their government is divided. 6. What liquid reminds the protagonist of nitric acid and a rubber club? 7. What problem does the protagonist have with his cigarettes? 8. What does the protagonist do that he expects will be punishable by death? 9. What is the emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League? 10. What member of the Inner Party does the protagonist hope is unorthodox? 11. Who is the subject of the Two Minute Hate? Identify two things he advocates. 12. What is the protagonist’s crime called? 1984 PART ONE- CHAPTER TWO & THREE QUIZ

/17 (18 possible) 1. Who is Mrs. Parsons? 2. What are Spies? 3. Name two of the things children like about the Party? 4. To whom do parents worry their children will report them? 5. In Winston’s dream, who said, “We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness?” 6. Newspeak, doublethink and mutability of the past are part of what Party doctrine? 7. Now that he’s taken the act of writing in the diary, what is his future? 8. How does Winston hope to be able to tell if his diary is disturbed? 9. What happened to Winston’s family? 10. What are the three super powers of 1984? In which does Winston live? 11. What telescreen activity begins the day? 12. What is the newspeak word for ‘reality control?’ 13. What has the party done with the past? 14. At the end of chapter three, what does Winston succeed in doing for the first time in several years? 1984 PART ONE- CHAPTER FOUR & FIVE QUIZ /15 16 possible 1. What is a ‘memory hole’? 2. What is Winston’s job? 3. Identify 4 things provided by the Ministry of Truth. 4. A person who ‘has never existed’ (but who had!) is called what in Oceania? 5. Comrade Ogilvy exists on the same evidence as two famous men. Name one. 6. When party shops don’t have necessary items, where do party members have to go? 7. What is the aim of Newspeak? 8. Why won’t Thoughtcrime exist in the future? 9. What does Winston think will happen to Syme? Why? 10. What does Winston observe happening after the changes to the chocolate ration? 11. What is facecrime? 12. What new item has been given to young Spies? 1984 PART ONE- CHAPTER SIX & SEVEN QUIZ /15 16 possible 1. What memory does Winston recount to his diary at the beginning of chapter 6? 2. How were children to be begotten in the future? 3. What percentage of the population are the proles? 4. Why was no attempt made to indoctrinate the proles into Party ideology? 5. What two things ‘are free’ according to a Party slogan? 6. Who are Jones, Aaronson and Rutherford? 7. What is the Chestnut Tree? 8. What significance was the telescreen voice singing “Under the spreading chestnut tree?” What happened soon after? 9. What item did Winston find among his documents in 1973? What was the significance of it? How did he react? What does he think he would do in 1984 if the same thing happened? 10. What does Winston understand? What doesn’t he understand? 1984 PART ONE- CHAPTER EIGHT QUIZ /15 16 possible 1. What smell takes Winston back to his childhood? 2. What newspeak word means individuality? 3. What is a ‘steamer?’ 4. To what public event do the proles pay serious attention? Which ministry governs this event? 5. Why does he want to go into a pub? 6. What alcoholic beverage do proles drink? 7. Why did the old man like to go to Hyde Park on Sundays? 8. Winston said he bought the diary to guard himself from what suicidal impulse? 9. What beautiful thing did Winston buy? What appealed to him about it? 10. What awakens nostalgia in Winston? 11. What is the picture of? What is the poem Winston learns? 12. Who does Winston believe is following him? 13. What does Winston believe is “the place where there is no darkness?”