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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 words bring the beginning of the end for Julia and Winston?
(a) Get down on the ground.
(b) You are the dead.
(c) You have been betrayed.
(d) You are not as smart as you think you are.

2. What is not statistical, as stated in Part 2, Chapter 8?
(a) Life.
(b) Sanity.
(c) Obedience.
(d) Emotion.

3. Where was the telescreen that caught Winston and Julia hidden?
(a) Behind the picture.
(b) Under the bed.
(c) In the ceiling.
(d) In the cabinet.

4. What special privilege do Inner Party members have?
(a) They can take nice, long vacations.
(b) They can turn their telescreens off.
(c) They can kill at will.
(d) They can choose from Party women.

5. What is in Room 101?
(a) The worst thing in the world.
(b) Certain death.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Pain beyond imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Goldstein's book?

2. Why was Parsons arrested?

3. What is the only efficient thing in Oceania?

4. What does the Party claim to have invented?

5. Where does Winston think he is in Part 3, Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Winston feel about physical pain? How does this relate to what you know about Winston's character?

2. What do you think will happen to Winston and Julia after Part 2, Chapter 10? Do they have any hope?

3. What is the significance of O'Brien's reference to Syme?

4. What "progress" has Winston made by Part 3, Chapter 4? What does Winston have to do before his re-education is complete?

5. Describe the forced-labor camps, according to the common criminals.

6. What is the most important theme of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and why?

7. Winston tells Julia that she is "only a rebel from the waist downwards." What does he mean by this, and is it true?

8. How does Winston feel towards O'Brien in Part 3, Chapter 2? Why do you think this is?

9. Why might George Orwell have made the book's conclusion so tragic? What is he trying to express?

10. How can Winston still achieve victory over the Party in Part 3, Chapter 4?

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