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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What smell is common to Winston's apartment building?
(a) Roses.
(b) Cabbage.
(c) Garbage.
(d) Stewed beef.

2. What was Rutherford's previous job?
(a) Cartoonist.
(b) Editor.
(c) Journalist.
(d) Playwrite.

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

4. What concealed danger does Winston have to be careful of in the countryside?
(a) Snipers.
(b) Thought Police.
(c) Rocketbombs.
(d) Microphones.

5. How does Winston recognize the junk shop?
(a) Seven wooden books.
(b) Three metal balls.
(c) Two ivory birds.
(d) Four smiling fairies.

6. What does Julia call the only safe way to talk in public?
(a) Talking by installments.
(b) Pick-up.
(c) Sign language.
(d) Broken telephone.

7. What does the Junior Anti-Sex League do?
(a) Write pamplets on sex education.
(b) Hunt down adulterers and prostitutes.
(c) Advocate complete celibacy.
(d) Perform arbitrary castrations.

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

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

10. What does Julia say is "the only way to stay safe"?
(a) Always yell with the crowd.
(b) Do as the Oceanians do.
(c) Listen to Big Brother.
(d) Be an informant.

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

12. Of what do Winston and Julia not discuss the possibility?
(a) Capture.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Living together.
(d) Children.

13. What organization supplied comforts to the sailors on the Floating Fortress?
(a) The OCCB.
(b) The FDA.
(c) The FFCC.
(d) The INGSOC.

14. Consorting with prostitutes was "dangerous, ___________________." (Part 1, Chapter 6)
(a) But it was not a life-and-death matter.
(b) But necessary to keep one's sanity.
(c) And should never be attempted.
(d) And would always be that way.

15. What is Parsons collecting money for in Part 1, Chapter 5?
(a) Atrocity Day.
(b) Love Hour.
(c) Hate Week.
(d) Apathy Month.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the prostitute not have?

2. In Part 1, Chapter 7, Winston wonders, as he had many times before, if he is a _________.

3. What is Winston's apartment called?

4. What does the girl with the dark hair do in Winston's dream?

5. How much does it cost for a nip of gin at the canteen?

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