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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl with the dark hair do in Winston's dream?
(a) Tear off her clothes.
(b) Kill Big Brother.
(c) Bring Winston some flowers.
(d) Sing a song.

2. What do the proles call rocketbombs?
(a) Steamers.
(b) Rollers.
(c) Rockers.
(d) Boomers.

3. Why does Winston have to falsify production reports?
(a) To make Oceania seem more prosperous.
(b) To give Big Brother credit for someone else's work.
(c) To discredit a Party member.
(d) To revitalize the war effort.

4. What do Mrs. Parsons' children want to see in Part 1, Chapter 2?
(a) A play.
(b) A hanging.
(c) A picture.
(d) A movie.

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

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

7. What word is on Winston's lips when he awakens from his dream in Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) Orwell.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Dynamite.

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

9. How much does it cost for a nip of gin at the canteen?
(a) One dollar.
(b) Ten cents.
(c) Twenty-five cents.
(d) Five dollars.

10. What does Winston buy in the junk shop?
(a) A desk lamp.
(b) An ink blotter.
(c) A fountain pen.
(d) A paperweight.

11. What does Mrs. Parsons want Winston to do in Part 1, Chapter 2?
(a) Look after her children.
(b) Fix her sink.
(c) Give a message to her husband.
(d) Take her children to town.

12. What is Winston's most important task of the day in Part 1, Chapter 4?
(a) To rewrite a story about Goldstein.
(b) To get lunch for his boss.
(c) To correct a speech by Big Brother.
(d) To fix the grammar in a story about the Eurasian front.

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

14. How many kilometers can someone travel in Oceania before their passport is checked?
(a) Two hundred.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Ten.
(d) Ninety.

15. What fell on Colchester?
(a) A rocketbomb.
(b) An atomic bomb.
(c) A meteorite.
(d) A UFO.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spoils Winston's plans to sit with the dark-haired girl in Part 2, Chapter 1?

2. What type of hats do capitalists supposedly wear?

3. What does Julia call the only safe way to talk in public?

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

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

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