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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. Who does Winston say to give the rat torture to instead of him?
(a) Goldstein.
(b) O'Brien.
(c) Julia.
(d) Anyone else.
2. How does Winston feel towards Big Brother?
(a) He hates him.
(b) He is mystified by him.
(c) He feels that he has become him.
(d) He loves him.
3. What did Winston steal from his baby sister?
(a) Money.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Candy.
(d) Chocolate.
4. What does the Party claim to have invented?
(a) Fire.
(b) Airplanes.
(c) Spaceships.
(d) The wheel.
5. What was the refugee woman doing in Winston's dream in Part 2, Chapter 7?
(a) Throwing a grenade.
(b) Standing in front of a tank.
(c) Running away in panic.
(d) Shielding her child from bullets.
Short Answer Questions
1. What words bring the beginning of the end for Julia and Winston?
2. What is not statistical, as stated in Part 2, Chapter 8?
3. What are the three stages to Winston's reintegration?
4. According to Part 3, Chapter 6, who is Oceania at war with, and has always been at war with?
5. What does everybody do when tortured?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Goldstein's book, why is a state of perpetual war necessary? For what purpose?
2. What do Winston and Julia mean when they say "We are the dead?"
3. Why might George Orwell have made the book's conclusion so tragic? What is he trying to express?
4. How is the Brotherhood organized, and why?
5. What does Winston think O'Brien will say is the reason the Party seeks power?
6. What "progress" has Winston made by Part 3, Chapter 4? What does Winston have to do before his re-education is complete?
7. What is the most important theme of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and why?
8. When questioned by O'Brien, Winston and Julia state that they are willing to commit many crimes, including the killing of innocent people. Do you think this is justifiable, given the terrible nature of the Party?
9. What are the two ultimate goals of the Party? What are they waiting for, and why?
10. What does Winston admire about his mother?
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