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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What urge is stronger than ever when Winston was finished writing about the prostitute?
(a) To choke down some food.
(b) To turn back time.
(c) To vomit profusely.
(d) To shout filthy words.

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

3. What does Ingsoc mean?
(a) English Soccer.
(b) English Society.
(c) English Socialism.
(d) English Socrates.

4. Who/what is Tillotson?
(a) A small, precise-looking, dark-chinned man.
(b) A skinny, pale-faced, ghost.
(c) A fat, sweaty, mess of a man.
(d) A large, feeble-minded, automoton.

5. How does Victory Gin smell?
(a) Warm and inviting.
(b) Harsh, like nitric acid.
(c) Sickly and oily.
(d) Gross and disgusting.

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

7. In Part 2, Chapter 3, what is Winston sorry he didn't do to his wife?
(a) Pay her off.
(b) Love her.
(c) Kill her.
(d) Divorce her.

8. With whom is Oceania at war?
(a) Eurasia.
(b) Northasia.
(c) Russia.
(d) Eastasia.

9. In Part 2, Chapter 1, where do Winston and the dark-haired girl agree to meet?
(a) In Airstrip One, in a house.
(b) In the train station, during rush hour.
(c) At the community center, after dark.
(d) Victory square, near the monument.

10. What does the woman in the telescreen call Winston?
(a) 6079 W.S.
(b) W. Smith 6079.
(c) Winston Smith 6079.
(d) 6079 Smith W.

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

12. What important thing does Winston do when he comes home in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) He gets drunk.
(b) He makes a plan to assassinate Big Brother.
(c) He starts a diary.
(d) He attempts suicide.

13. What is Winston doing at the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 6?
(a) Dreaming.
(b) Writing in his diary.
(c) Working.
(d) Going for a walk.

14. Who spoils Winston's plans to sit with the dark-haired girl in Part 2, Chapter 1?
(a) Wilsher.
(b) Ampleforth.
(c) Shawshank.
(d) Fisher.

15. What happened to the Inner Party member with whom Julia had her first affair?
(a) He vanished mysteriously.
(b) His helicopter crashed.
(c) He killed himself.
(d) He was caught and vaporized.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of the Parsons children use to hit Winston in the neck?

2. In Part 2, Chapter 3, what will be Julia and Winston's next meeting place?

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

4. What is the name of the song on the telescreen?

5. What does Winston write repeatedly in his diary after thinking about the Two Minutes Hate?

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