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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the Two Minutes Hate, what does everyone in the room do?
(a) Sing the national anthem.
(b) Scream, yell, and throw objects at the telescreen.
(c) Fight with each other.
(d) Sit in quiet hatred.

2. What newspaper does Winston re-write?
(a) The Journal.
(b) The Times.
(c) The Sun.
(d) The Post.

3. Who is the vaporized man Winston must delete from The Times?
(a) Dithers.
(b) Blithers.
(c) Smithers.
(d) Withers.

4. What is the name of the mandatory morning exercise program?
(a) The Morning Stretches.
(b) The Physical Jerks.
(c) Aerobics with Goldstein.
(d) The Mandatory Morning Exercise Program.

5. The Enemy of the People is...
(a) Emmanuel Goldstein.
(b) Emmanuel Silverstein.
(c) Emmanuel Goldfinch.
(d) Emmanuel Golden.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julia describe herself?

2. Who is Julia?

3. What smell is common to Winston's apartment building?

4. When the Thought Police secretly arrest and execute someone, most people would say that person has been _______.

5. What does Julia say is "the only way to stay safe"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Winston fears that the dark-haired girl is not a member of the Thought Police; instead, she is an amateur spy. Why do you think the latter is more dangerous?

2. Why do you think Winston was unable to prevent himself from having sex with the prostitute?

3. The sandy-haired woman in the cubicle next to Winston spends all day deleting any record of people who have been "vaporized," even though her own husband had been killed this way. How do you think she felt when she deleted her own husband's name? Why does she continue to do this job?

4. Look up the word "proletariat" in the dictionary. What does it mean? Why does the Party ignore the proles? Is this strange?

5. Syme explains that the most important part of Newspeak is not the creation of new words, but the deletion of old words. Why might this be more important? What is the true purpose of Newspeak?

6. What is the significance is behind Winston's dream about his mother? How might she have died?

7. What might the woman singing in the street symbolizes?

8. Judging by the dream Winston has about the girl with dark hair, how does he appear to feel about her?

9. Where does Winston work, and what is his job? Why does he have to do this?

10. How would you have reacted to the note? What would you have done differently, and why?

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