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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 is the Newspeak word for individualism?
(a) Anti-socialism.
(b) Hermitstyle.
(c) Singularism.
(d) Ownlife.

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

3. What is the official language of Oceania?
(a) Newglish.
(b) Newlang.
(c) Newtalk.
(d) Newspeak.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Julia ask Winston to turn around in Part 2, Chapter 4?

2. When the Thought Police secretly arrest and execute someone, most people would say that person has been _______.

3. Who/what is Tillotson?

4. What important thing does Winston do when he comes home in Part 1, Chapter 1?

5. In Newspeak, what word will eventually replace "bad"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Winston think Syme will be vaporized? What does Syme lack?

3. 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?

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. 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?

6. Why doesn't Winston kill the girl with the dark hair? Who else doesn't he kill for very similar reasons?

7. How would you have reacted to the note? What would you have done differently, and why?

8. Who was comrade Ogilvy, and what was he like? How did he supposedly die?

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

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