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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 smell is common to Winston's apartment building?
(a) Garbage.
(b) Stewed beef.
(c) Cabbage.
(d) Roses.

2. What is used only by the proles?
(a) Soap.
(b) Perfume.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Hand tools.

3. What is Winston's phobia?
(a) Rats.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Open spaces.
(d) English people.

4. The Enemy of the People is...
(a) Emmanuel Goldstein.
(b) Emmanuel Silverstein.
(c) Emmanuel Golden.
(d) Emmanuel Goldfinch.

5. How many clothing coupons does Winston get annually?
(a) Four thousand.
(b) Five thousand.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Three thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the bells of St. Clement's say?

2. With whom is Oceania at war?

3. How does Winston recognize the junk shop?

4. What doesn't Winston give Ogilvy?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is unusual about Winston's telescreen, and why is it important?

3. Look up the word "comrade" up in a dictionary. Why do you think everyone in Oceania is supposed to call each other comrade?

4. 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?

5. Try to imagine what it would be like to live in a country like Oceania where you are constantly watched by government agents. How would you feel?

6. 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?

7. Judging by the dream Winston has about the girl with dark hair, how does he appear to feel about her?

8. What is the difference between Winston and Julia's feelings about their future?

9. How does Winston really feel about Big Brother and the Party?

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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