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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 Winston's bed feel like in Part 3, Chapter 2?
(a) A bed of nails.
(b) A slab of granite.
(c) Heaven.
(d) A camp bed.

2. In Part 2, Chapter 5, who has been vaporized?
(a) Ampleforth.
(b) Parsons.
(c) Syme.
(d) O'Brien.

3. In Part 3, Chapter 4, what is the third phrase Winston writes?
(a) Two and two make four.
(b) I love Big Brother.
(c) Freedom is Slavery.
(d) God is Power.

4. Does Winston believe in God?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) He doesn't care.
(d) He is agnostic.

5. What was the only way for Winston to save himself in Part 3, Chapter 5?
(a) To put somebody between himself and the rats.
(b) To hand over information about the Brotherhood.
(c) To become an Inner Party member like O'Brien.
(d) To slit his wrists with the smuggled razor blade.

Short Answer Questions

1. If independent thought and a diary are the first step, what is the last step?

2. Of what are the walls of Winston's cell made?

3. How do the proles normally feel about the war?

4. Why are people brought to the Ministry of Love?

5. What is the only thing that the Party cannot do to Winston and Julia?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of Part 2, Chapter 5, what does Winston realize about the Party and their orthodoxy? How does this relate to the everyday citizens of Oceania?

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

3. What does Winston think the Party and the Ministry of Love can never do? Why?

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

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

6. According to O'Brien, where does reality exist?

7. What does O'Brien say is the real reason the Party seeks power? How are they different from past governments?

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

9. What does Winston admire about his mother?

10. What are the two ultimate goals of the Party? What are they waiting for, and why?

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