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Part One: Chapter One 1. What was the uniform of the Party? 2. What hovered, snooped into people's windows, and darted away? 3. One lived under "the assumption that every sound you made was ______, and, except in darkness, every movement ______." 4. Where did Winston Smith work? 5. What was the official language of Oceania? 6. Using the official language, state the four Ministries: 7. TF: The saw Winston write in his diary and flashed a red warning on the screen: Writing is Death. 8. Who was the audience for Winston's writing? 9. TF: In Winston's journal entry, people were killed. 10. In what department did Winston work? 11. Winston's dislike of the girl who worked in the Fiction Department was based on tangible encounters with her where she disagreed with his opinion twice. 12. TF: Winston didn't know much about the details of O'Brien's job. 13. Who was "the earliest defiler of the Party's purity"? 14. TF: The "underground network of conspirators" referred to those who sided with the enemy of the State. 15. During the Two Minute Hate, which person or entity did Winston not hate? A) Goldstein B) the C) the girl with the scarlet sash D) Big Brother E) None of the above. 16. Which occurred first? A) the sandy-haired woman's climactic exultation with Big Brother or B) the chanting of "B-B" 17. When O'Brien's eyes met with Smith's, what did Smith conclude, albeit, an assumption? A) that O'Brien was gay B) that his black uniform was better C) that O'Brien's political sentiments leaned toward the Brotherhood. D) that O'Brien's political sentiments staunchly supported and mirrored Big Brother's. 18. TF: Winston tore out the page from his diary which read "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER." 19. State two textual synonyms with "vaporized." 20. Chapter one ended with the Thought Police giving Winston Smith a "smart" injection, realigning him with Big Brother beliefs. Part One: Chapter Two 1. Repairs at Victory Mansions A) were swift B) had to be sanctioned by a committee C) were logged in a journal by Mrs. Parsons D) were performed in the order in which tyey were entered on a spreadsheet. 2. What clogged Mrs. Parsons's pipe? 3. Who shouted "Goldstein" at Winston? A) the boy B) the mother C) the sister D) Tom 4. Briefly explain "symptons of unorthodoxy." 5. What were on both sides of a coin? 6. Now that Smith "recognized himself as a dead man, it became important ... A) to bond with child heroes B) to stay alive as long as possible C) to sweat like Tom D) to write feverishly in his journal. 7. Why did Winston put dust on the corner of his diary? Part One: Chapter Three 1. The purges of the Fifties did what to Winston's parents? 2. Which female was omitted from Winston's dream? A) the girl with dark hair B) his sister C) an aerobics instructor D) his mother 3. In the old days, Airstrip One was called what? 4. Winston's recollection of an old man and his comments to an old woman underscored what political sentiment? 5. Currently, Oceania was in alliance with what country? 6. TF: "" was the Party's current lie. 7. "" stood for what? 8. Which occurred first? A) the calling out of Winston's number or B) a successful toe touch by Smith Part One: Chapter Four 1. State the irony of "memory holes." 2. State the textual synonym for "rectify." 3. TF: Big Brother had a stamp which read "State Sanctioned" on each book that had been rectified. 4. TF: The "hum of voices murmuring into speakwrites" in the Records Department made it easy to overhear who had been vaporized. 5. Why were two publications printed in Oceania? 6. What was Winston's greatest pleasure in life? 7. What was "the complex process of cross-referencing"? 8. What common thread linked Comrade Withers with Comrade Ogilvy? 9. By chapter's end, Smith still suspected Tillotson to be working on the same job as himself. Part One: Chapter Five 1. Which did not occur? A) The Party shops were out of blades. B) Syme's eyes scrutinized Smith's face. C) Syme revealed his intellectual satisfaction from destroying Oldspeak nonsense. D) The fumes of victory gin in the canteen were hidden and suppressed by the metalic smell of steamy stew. 2. "Doubleplusgood" was given as an example of a super sufficient A) noun B) verb C) direct object D) adverb or E) adjective. 3. When will the revolution be complete? Explain. 4. " is ______and ______is Newspeak." 5. Why did Winston think Syme would eventually be vaporized? 6. "Quacking" depicted what type of verbiage? A) mindless mimicking of the Party line B) Unorthodoxy C) Sentimental Goldstein D) Hidden heresies 7. When Parsons joined Syme and Winston at lunch, he (Syme) spoke proudly of what? A) his son's scouting skills B) his daughter's espionage C) his wife's refusal to whine D) his Victory garden 8. TF: An "ancestral memory" was synonymous with an "actual memory." 9. Who would not be vaporized? A) bettlelike men B) "the girl from the Fiction Dept" C) Quackers C) Mr. Parsons E) all of the above 10. Why was an amateur spy "the greatest danger of all"? 11. What was a "facecrime"? 12. What object was the latest gadget used for enhancing eavesdropping? Part One: Chapter Six 1. What was your worst enemy? 2. What was the most deadly danger of all? 3. The name of Smith's wife was what? 4. What was the only State-recognized purpose for marriage? 5. What was not true about Smith's wife? A) Sex repulsed her. B) She felt she and Winston should have a child. C) She left Winston after about fifteen months. D) She was filled with Party slogans. E) She was a passionate lover. 6. TF: One night, Smith's wife felt true love for Winston and turned herself in for thought crime. 7. TF: Winston was successfully able to erase from his mind the memory of intimacy with an old woman. Part One: Chapter Seven 1. TF: Proles were easy to control. 2. TF: While proles noticed larger evils, they were powerless to rectify them because they had no union. 3. According to the Party slogan, "______and ______are free." 4. Why would jus primae noctis not be mentioned in a textbook for children? 5. The Party proudly proclaimed that what percent of proles were literate? 6. What happened to the original leaders of the Revolution? 7. Give three names that were examples of "corpses waiting to be sent back to the grave." 8. The new-found audience for Winston's diary was who? 9. What was the Party's final and most essential command? 10. Paraphrase Winston's final journal entry about freedom. Part One: Chapter Eight 1. What was considered dangerous? A) a taste for solitude B) eccentricity C) individualism D) ownlife E) all of the above 2. Explain "creaking camaraderie oiled by gin." 3. What occurred when Winston took an unusual route home, travelling through a prole neighborhood? A) The proles saw his uniform and scattered. B) Proles scattered because of a Party bomb. 4. The proles paid serious attention to what public event? 5. Which Ministry fabricated nonexistent persons as winners of big prizes? 6. What event in the bar caused the uneasiness toward Winston to disappear? 7. TF: When Winston returned with two more beers, the old man began quoting from history books. 8. What two attributes did the old man ascribe to youth? 9. TF: The old man returned from the restroom to discover that Smith had been arrested for thoughtquery. 10. What feeling ran through Winston when he stood outside the shop where he'd bought his diary? 11. If questioned why he was in the shop, what excuse whould Winston have given? 12. Why did Winston buy the coral antique (a glass paper weight)? 13. What object was missing from the room upstairs? 14. TF: It was hard to buy a book printed before 1960? 15. Who was Charrington? 16. That Winston had never really heard church bells ringing meant what about those buildings? 17. TF: After seeing the firl from the Fiction Department, Winston discarded the coral glass. 18. TF: Winston killed the girl from the Fiction Department and established an alibi at the Community Center. 19. The "place where there is no darkness" was where? Part Two: Chapter One 1. Which did not occur? A) The note from the fallen girl was read twice. B) Winston had two possibilities for the girl's affiliations. C) The exchange was made during a glich in the telescreen. D) The note was read after a calculated lapse of time. 2. Which did occur? A) Winston put the note in the pneumatic tube. B) Parsons was odor-free. C) The girl said, "Thanks comrade!" D) All of Winston's work needed close scrutiny. E) Winston and the girl made eye contact. 3. TF: Winston had wolf in the canteen. 4. TF: When playing chess, one had to wear an arm band which read "Ingsoc in relation to chess." 5. Describe postcards in Airstrip One. 6. When "for three dreadful days she did not appear at all," what did Winston imagine? 7. Which person obstructed Winston from sitting with the girl? A) Ampleforth B) Wilsher C) the beetlelike man D) the enormous prole 8. What were the prisoners wearing? 9. Which did not occur in Victory Square? A) manual contact with the girl B) eye contact with the girl C) social contact D) crowd contact Part Two: Chapter Two 1. At the natural clearing, it was evident that they both had what common worry or suspicion? 2. Which color did Orwell not yet use? A) yellow sunshine B) scarlet sash C) brown eyes D) greeness of the leaves E) red mouth 3. TF: When Julia removed her scarlet sash of the Junior Anti-Sex League, Winston unbuttoned her blouse, kissed her cheerful luscious lips, and pursued the memory of free sex in the shade of secret forest shadows. 4. What simile was used to place Julia's coarse remarks about the Inner Party into a natural response? 5. That Julia enjoyed sex underscored what important trait, a key force essential to busting the Party to pieces? 6. Explain: "This time there was no difficulty." 7. Based on the metaphor at chapter's end, what one word summarized their intercourse? A) seduction B) thunder C) scrimmage D) sedition Part Two: Chapter Three 1. Which was not an example of Julia's "practical cunning"? A) blow her nose B) one hour rendezvous C) depart at intervals D) remove twigs E) lip control 2. What made their faces white? 3. In the name of ______, an act or [Party] disguise as a front, Julia persuaded Winston to enroll in part-time ______work. 141 4. Which was not true about Julia? A) She was disinterested in Party doctrine. B) She had worked in Pornosec. C) Her grandmother instilled a rebel instinct in her. D) Her lexicon was fundamentally void of Newspeak words. 5. TF: Julia understood "the intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy." 6. The Party operated on all of the following except: A) expensively bottled gin B) lunatic credulity C) hatred D) fear 7. TF: Winston understood that to kill one nagging person, Katharine, solved "nothing." 8. What traits did Julia rely on for survival? A) free love, deception, and rancor B) work, play, and firt maps C) luck, cunning, and boldness D) looks, secret sex, and camouflage 9. What perception did Winston maintain for his survival? Part Two: Chapter Four 1. Who said "Privacy was a very valuable thing"? 2. What made the upstairs shop room so tempting? 3. How did affect workers? 4. Arrange Winston's initial reactions to the news of being deprived of sex with Julia. A) anger, cheated, affection B) understanding, affection, forgiveness C) disappointed, angry, hostile D) hostile, understanding, compassionate 5. Ironically, what wish did Winston stumble upon after Julia whispered she could not meet with him? 6. To what did Julia "agree with unexpected readiness"? 7. In response to the surprise Julia had brought Winston, he, upon embracing her newly painted face, thought past the moment and remembered what? A) the scent of Inner Party coffee B) the whore C) his mother D) Katharine E) all the men Julia had been with 8. Why was the window shut? A) to hide Julia's screaming objections about rats B) to hide the noise of a jiggling bed C) to hide the noixe of a steaming kettle D) to hide the scent of real coffee 9. Criticize the metaphor at chapter's end. Part Two: Chapter Five 1. Whose name was absent from the list of the members of the Chess Committee? 2. Which department made "atrocity pamphlets" for Hate Week? 3. What lie was promulgated about the origins of the rocket bombs? 4. What change was not amongst those that Winston underwent? A) vericose ulcer subsided B) leaner shape C) gin habit curtailed D) telescreen interaction changed 5. What was the newly implied metaphor for the room? 6. Who seemed "glad of the opportunity to talk"? 7. TF: Mr. Charrington's rhymes were recalled only in fragments. 8. What paradoxical words, seemingly contradictory terms, typified the dual feelings Julia and Winston had about their situation? 9. That the government might be launching rocket bombs on its own people was communicated from whom to whom? 10. What about Julia "frightened him (Winston) a little"? 11. TF: Winston and Julia were perfect soul partners because they shared a contempt for the falsification of history. 12. When Winston said, "'You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,'" what did he mean? 13. TF: Julia was offended when she realized Winston had put her in the category of people who were non-thinking twits who swallowed everything at face value. Part Two: Chapter Six 1. Which did not occur? A) O'Brien contacted Winston and gave him his home address. B) Winston spoke truthfully about not having seen the tenth edition of the Newspeak dictionary. C) O'Brien specified what part of the dictionary Winston would like, and Winston confirmed O'Brien's assumption. D) O'Brien used a manner of speech that separated him from the majority of Inner Party members and sought not to conceal his note from the telescreen. E) A summons from O'Brien had not been connected to a prole revolt; nevertheless, Winston felt certain about the conspiracy of a Brotherhood. 2. What occurred in Chapter Six? Part Two: Chapter Seven 1. What, above all, did Winston remember more than his father's disappearance? 2. When did Winston's mother become "completely spiritless"? A) after cooking B) after not being able to lose weight C) after Winston rejected her D) after her husband disappeared 3. Which idiomatic expression typified Winston with regard to food? A) Give an inch, take a mile. B) A stitch in time saves nine. C) Hear no evil; speak no evil; see no evil. D) To each his own. E) What goes around comes around. 4. TF: Winston's mother accused Winston of eating like a "baby monkey." 5. After snatching and eating his sister's chocolate, what feeling did Winston have? 6. TF: Winston had another dream wherein his mother drowned. 7. Who said "'All children are swines'"? 8. What "terrible thing" did the Party do? A) 'persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account" and B) rob you of all power over the material world 9. Why did Winston have a new perspective and appreciation for the proles? 10. What new method of beating the Party did Winston realize when discussing "betrayal" with Julia? 11. What happened in the Ministry of Love? Part Two: Chapter Eight 1. Which occurred last? A) O'Brien turned off the telescreen. B) Winston was impressed with O'Brien's home. C) Julia enjoyed talking into the speakwrite. D) O'Brien listened to Winston lie. 2. The initial toast was proposed to whom? 3. Why would Winston speak longer with O'Brien? 4. TF: Julia answered honestly in response to whether she could live without Winston. 5. What was O'Brien's response to Winston's "'No'"? 6. Winston would receive orders from whom? 7. What trait was ascribed to a fanatic? 8. What subject was not touched upon by O'Brien when sharing with Julia and Winston? A) contacts B) Brotherhood members C) the strategy for destruction D) marriage 9. To what was the parting toast? 10. Which was not true about O'Brien? A) He knew the completed stanza. B) He had an opinion about Winston's diding place. C) He was clear about Goldstein's book D) O'Brien encouraged Winston to finish the book in two weeks and give it to Julia. 11. TF: O'Brien crushed Winston's hand as an initiation ritual for joining the Brotherhood. Part Two: Chapter Nine 1. Why had Winston not read any part of the book in six days? 2. What was the crowd reaction when the target of hate switched from Eurasia to Eastasia? A) The frenzy continued exactly as before. B) The two thousand Eurasian war criminals were slaughtered anyway. C) The smart children questioned the speaker. D) Parsons realized the fickle folly of Party politics and joined the Brotherhood. 3. Brief blame for the switch from Eurasia to Eastasia was cast upon whom? 4. TF: Winston partook in the fabrication of history, making it look like Eurasia had never been an enemy. 5. TF: After arriving at Charrington's shop, Winston had sex with Julia before beginning the book. The Book, Chapter One Comment on the aims of the three classes. The Book, Chapter Three 1. In war, if your side committed "reprisals against prisoners," it was ______. 2. If committed against your side, it was an ______. 3. The three superpowers "are constantly struggling" for what? 4. "A hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of ______and ______." 5. Which was not true? A) An Inner Party member believed that Oceania would master the entire world. B) In Newspeak, there was no word for "Science." C) One of the aims of Ingsoc was to extinguish independent thought. D) The storing of atomic bombs ceased to be a practice. 6. TF: For cultural advantage, learning a foreign language was essential if Ingsoc were to flourish. 7. TF: The rival systems of thought each had a semi-divine leader. 8. Explain the difference between a war of the past and an Ingsoc war. 9. Explain "WAR IS PEACE." 10. Which occurred first? A) Reading chapter one before sex B) Reading chapter one after sex. The Book, Chapter One 1. If one only changed the name of one's master, he probably belonged to which class? A) High B) Middle C) Low D) Underground 2. What was a cyclical process? 3. What "was the unalterable law of human life"? 4. Once the ruling power was overthrown, "a fresh ______" was quickly established. 5. Each variant of Socialism perpetuated what? 6. What type of production altered the need for class distinction? 7. By the 1940's, "all the main currents of political thought were ______." 8. Cardinal to the new aristocracy was to ______. 9. TF: Ingsoc was opposed to the abolition of private property. 10. TF: Ingsoc encouraged the articulation of discontent. 11. Big Brother was at the ______of the pyramid. 12. What came just beneath Big Brother? 13. Who ranked just above the proles? 14. A gifted proletarian would most likely encounter what fate? 15. TF: The Party perpetuated itself by blood; that is, a son of the Inner Party would automatically inherit the private property of the father, thus maintaining class rank as a ruling member. 16. State two attitudes crimestop would squelch. 17. What Newspeak word depicted the ability of a Party member to state contradictory opposites, believe it, and not know that he ever knew differently? 18. Define "doublethink." 19. State the paradox of the four Ministries. 20. TF: Winston stopped reading Goldstein's book because he knew the Ingsoc original motive for "freezing history" was the human need to control "true love." Part Two: Chapter Ten 1. Which occurred first? A) realization about the oil B) a luxurious stretch C) observation of a granite butt 2. Winston knew Goldstein's final message must be what? 3. Who did not sing? 4. Which did not occur? A) Julia was hit. B) A telescreen was behind the picture. C) The house was surrounded. D) The paperweight was a microphone transmitting the sounds of love. 5. Who turned out to be a member of the Thought Police? Part Three: Chapter One 1. How many were in Winston's cell? 2. In an ordinary prison, which type of criminal might receive a position of trust? 3. TF: Smith's number (6079) was first called out in a labor camp. 4. All the dirty jobs were done by A) the politicians B) the politicals C) the party D) the female prisoners 5. "Uninterested contempt" was displayed by whom and toward whom? 6. That Winston "felt" no love for Julia meant what? 7. How might Apmleforth have avoided incarceration? A) Cape Cod B) Nantucket C) Marthas Vineyard D) Boston 8. Whose feces stank the cell for hours? A) O'Brien's B) Julia's C) Winston's D) Parsons's E) Ampleforth's 9. Which did not occur? A) The chinless man was humiliated B) Something went wrong with the telescreen. C) The skull-faced man dreaded going to Room 101. D) Fingers were broken. 10. Which occurred? A) O'Brien told another guard where to hit Winston. B) Winston's other elbow was offerred to spare Julia. C) Contortions caused Party grief. D) Winston's question about pain was answered. Part Three: Chapter Two 1. Confession was a ______, though the torture was ______. 2. TF: The first food fed to 6079 was a sack of potatoes. 3. What beat boots for breaking one down? 4. Which statement did O'Brien not make? A) You have controlled your sanity. B) Reality is not external. C) Who controls the present controls the past. D) You are mentally deranged. 5. What fact, according to O'Brien, must Winston relearn? 6. O'Brien tortured Winston to the edge of ______. 7. One was cured, or sane, when one did what? 8. In the Ministry of Love, one was killed under what circumstances? 9. TF: After sufficient torture and experimentation, Winston experienced partial purity for a fleeting moment. 10. Which was not an answer to Winston's questions? A) Julia betrayed Winston and was converted. B) Big Brother will always exist. C) The existence of the Brotherhood will be a riddle. D) Room 101 is Big Brother's home. Part Three: Chapter Three 1. Who collaborated in writing Goldstein's book? 2. What was O'Brien's view of a proletarian rebellion? 3. What, according to O'Brien, ought to be the starting point of thought for Winston? 4. Which tenant was key to Ingsoc? A) the few, the strong, the many. B) The masses needed baby sitting. C) A select few did evil that good might come. D) Parcel freedom to proles. 5. O'Brien used doublespeak with what topic? A) power B) philosophy C) Recreation D) Paradise 6. "One does not establish a ______in order to safeguard a ______." 288 7. Explain "Freedom is Slavery." 8. Which did O'Brien not communicate? A) Oceania is the world. B) Power is a means to an end. C) Reality is inside the skull. D) The earth is the center of the universe. 9. How would the new civilization differ from the old? A) more hedonism B) more friendship C) more pain D) more self-esteem 10. Imagining a picture of the future involved what image? A) a boot stamping on a human face B) a fist in the air C) handcuffed proles hugging Big Brother D) Big Brother blowing fire at a heretic. 11. After examining himself in the mirror, what was Winston's reaction? 12. That the Ministry of Love had not altered Winston's feelings toward Julia meant what? Part Three: Chapter Four 1. Which was not true about Winston? A) He had good dreams about O'Brien. B) Winston delighted in feeling renewed strength. C) He exercised regularly. D) He smoked a pack a day. 2. Which was true about Winston? A) He was able to regurgitate the Party line without a high degree of believability. B) Going with the flow of the Party stream was still abhorent to him. C) He had no desire for conversation or distraction. D) He hardly knew why he ever rebelled. 3. To instinctively dispose of a fallacy of thought was called what? 4. TF: "Athleticism of the mind" involved a delicate use of Ingsoc logic (intelligence) and a blind spot (stupidity) toward "the crudest logical errors." 5. Winston's reverie of Julia and outspoken cry indicated what about Winston's inner state? 6. Winston concluded all of the following except: A) Secrets must be buried deep in the unconscious, never emerging into thought or dreams. B) One can carry hatred, but one needed to be disconnected from it. C) To die hating the Party was a Party Victory. 7. Room 101 was reserved for what? A) education and learning B) understanding and capitulating C) acceptance and love Part Three: Chapter Five How did O'Brien force Winston to betray Julia? Part Three: Chapter Six 1. Which was not true? A) Winston's concentration and focus were less than before. B) He was popular at the Chestnut Tree Café. C) He made more money from a less significant job. D) The smell of gin was mixed in his mind with the smell of rats. 2. Which was true? A) Winston cheered wholeheartedly for Oceania's latest victory. B) Winston's mother fired the bullet that killed Winston. C) Winston and Julia were rekindling their love. D) Winston could not fully love Big Brother because secret love for Julia rested at the base of his spine. 3. How could Winston have saved himself from "self-willed exile" and death?