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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 reason for O'Brien's encounter with Winston?
(a) So O'Brien can give Winston his address.
(b) So O'Brien can give Winston a book.
(c) So O'Brien can warn Winston about information the Thought Police have on him.
(d) There is no reason for the encounter.

2. What will be the one certain thing about Winston's death?
(a) That it will be painful.
(b) It will be certain.
(c) That it will erase him.
(d) That the time can't be expected.

3. Julia is only a rebel __________.
(a) In disguise.
(b) As much as Winston is.
(c) From the waist down.
(d) Without a cause.

4. What does the Party claim to have invented?
(a) The wheel.
(b) Fire.
(c) Spaceships.
(d) Airplanes.

5. What differentiates the way O'Brien speaks from other Inner Party members?
(a) A peculiar grave courtesy.
(b) A strange sort of tick.
(c) An odd humourous tone.
(d) A warm welcoming manner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only way for Winston to save himself in Part 3, Chapter 5?

2. To what organization does Mr. Charrington really belong?

3. How does one man assert his power over another, as stated in Part 3, Chapter 3?

4. What is the name of O'Brien's servant, and where does Winston think he is from?

5. What does Winston realize about secrets?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Winston's betrayal reveal about his character? What do you think of him now?

2. What does Winston think O'Brien will say is the reason the Party seeks power?

3. What does Winston admire about his mother?

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

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

6. What do Winston and Julia mean when they say "We are the dead?"

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

8. How is the Brotherhood organized, and why?

9. How does Winston betray Julia? What is the significance of this?

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

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