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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Newspeak name for people who have been vaporized?
(a) Vapors.
(b) Unpersons.
(c) Nonpeople.
(d) Anti-citizens.

2. Where does Winston miss a meeting in Part 1, Chapter 8?
(a) The Community Center.
(b) With his accountant.
(c) The Ministry of Truth.
(d) The Hate Week planning committee.

3. What is the prole woman doing outside the window in Part 2, Chapter 4?
(a) Humming and painting.
(b) Singing and hanging laundry.
(c) Chanting and walking by.
(d) Whistling and gardening.

4. What is used only by the proles?
(a) Soap.
(b) Hand tools.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Perfume.

5. Why did Parsons' daughter report a man to the police?
(a) He was from Eurasia.
(b) They heard him swearing at Big Brother.
(c) He was a member of the Brotherhood.
(d) He was wearing strange shoes.

6. What is the name of Winston's "friend" who works at the Research Department?
(a) Syme.
(b) Smith.
(c) Parsons.
(d) O'Brien.

7. What doesn't Winston give Ogilvy?
(a) The Keys to the City.
(b) The Order of Conspicuous Merit.
(c) The Order of Oceania.
(d) The Silver Cross.

8. The telescreen announces a reduction in what type of rations?
(a) Water.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Bread.
(d) Cigarettes.

9. What device is used to write songs?
(a) Musiwrite.
(b) Tune-a-matic.
(c) Songtron.
(d) Versificator.

10. What is written on the flag that keeps flapping?
(a) OCEANIA.
(b) ANGLO.
(c) BIG BROTHER.
(d) INGSOC.

11. What is everyone in Oceania supposed to call each other?
(a) Comrade.
(b) Brother or sister.
(c) Friend.
(d) Senior.

12. What is the Newspeak word for individualism?
(a) Ownlife.
(b) Singularism.
(c) Anti-socialism.
(d) Hermitstyle.

13. What is Winston's apartment called?
(a) Victory Mansions.
(b) London House.
(c) Oceania View.
(d) Grenadier Apartments.

14. What is the resistance to the Party called?
(a) The Resistance.
(b) The Clash.
(c) The Brotherhood.
(d) The Partisans.

15. When Winston sees the prostitute in the light, he sees that she is _____.
(a) Young.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Old.
(d) A man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julia think is behind the picture in Part 2, Chapter 4?

2. What urge is stronger than ever when Winston was finished writing about the prostitute?

3. What word is on Winston's lips when he awakens from his dream in Part 1, Chapter 3?

4. What organization supplied comforts to the sailors on the Floating Fortress?

5. What type of flower does Winston collect before meeting the dark-haired girl?

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