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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. 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.

2. What does Julia think is behind the picture in Part 2, Chapter 4?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Bugs.
(c) A microphone.
(d) A safe.

3. What is the name of the waste paper disposal chute in Winston's workplace?
(a) Throwaway hole.
(b) Memory hole.
(c) Remembering hole.
(d) Forgetful hole.

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

5. What type of flower does Winston collect before meeting the dark-haired girl?
(a) Dandelions.
(b) Bluebells.
(c) Roses.
(d) Daffodils.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Julia?

2. What is the last thing Winston does in Part 1, Chapter 3?

3. What does the note left by the individual whom Winston sees in the hall say?

4. What happened to the Inner Party member with whom Julia had her first affair?

5. Consorting with prostitutes was "dangerous, ___________________." (Part 1, Chapter 6)

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. When Winston kisses Julia, he feels "incredulity and pride ... but he had no physical desire." Why do you think he feels this way? What does it reveal about why he needs Julia?

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

4. Winston feels the worst things about life in Oceania are not its "cruelty and insecurity," but "its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness." Why might he feels this way?

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

6. "All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary." What is a palimpsest, and why do you think the author used this word?

7. In Winston's dream, the man O'Brien says "We will meet in the place where there is no darkness." What do you think he meant by this?

8. What do the Parsons children want to go see in Part 1, Chapter 2? What do you think of them?

9. When Winston was young, he and his family had to take shelter in a subway station because London was being attacked. An old man was crying, "We didn't ought to have trusted them." Who should not have trusted?

10. In your own words, how does Winston describe Mr. Parsons?

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