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

2. Having an improper expression is called a ________.
(a) Expressioncrime.
(b) Facecrime.
(c) Mugcrime.
(d) Frowncrime.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 2, Chapter 1, where do Winston and the dark-haired girl agree to meet?

2. How many times has Julia had sex?

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

4. What do the proles call rocketbombs?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. "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?

6. Why are the proles the only force capable of overthrowing the Party?

7. Doublethink is believing that something is true when you know it is false. Do you really think that doublethink is possible? Can you find any examples of doublethink in the real world?

8. Why does Winston keep thinking about O'Brien? What does O'Brien represents to Winston?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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