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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 Mrs. Parsons want Winston to do in Part 1, Chapter 2?
(a) Look after her children.
(b) Fix her sink.
(c) Give a message to her husband.
(d) Take her children to town.

2. The telescreen announces a reduction in what type of rations?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Bread.
(c) Water.
(d) Chocolate.

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

4. What is Winston's most important task of the day in Part 1, Chapter 4?
(a) To correct a speech by Big Brother.
(b) To fix the grammar in a story about the Eurasian front.
(c) To get lunch for his boss.
(d) To rewrite a story about Goldstein.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Parsons collecting money for in Part 1, Chapter 5?

2. Where did Oceania recently have a military victory?

3. What does Winston think will happen to Syme?

4. What is the name of Winston's wife?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why will no Party woman wear perfume?

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

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

5. Winston fears that the dark-haired girl is not a member of the Thought Police; instead, she is an amateur spy. Why do you think the latter is more dangerous?

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

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

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