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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. Why did Parsons' daughter report a man to the police?
(a) He was wearing strange shoes.
(b) He was a member of the Brotherhood.
(c) He was from Eurasia.
(d) They heard him swearing at Big Brother.

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

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

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

5. Why does Winston have to falsify production reports?
(a) To revitalize the war effort.
(b) To make Oceania seem more prosperous.
(c) To give Big Brother credit for someone else's work.
(d) To discredit a Party member.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what do Winston and Julia not discuss the possibility?

2. The Enemy of the People is...

3. What does Ingsoc mean?

4. What is Winston doing at the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 6?

5. What doesn't Winston give Ogilvy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do you think Winston was unable to prevent himself from having sex with the prostitute?

3. Where does Winston work, and what is his job? Why does he have to do this?

4. Why will no Party woman wear perfume?

5. What does Part 1, Chapter 1 show the reader about the quality of Oceania's services and products?

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

7. The sandy-haired woman in the cubicle next to Winston spends all day deleting any record of people who have been "vaporized," even though her own husband had been killed this way. How do you think she felt when she deleted her own husband's name? Why does she continue to do this job?

8. 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?

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

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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