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

2. What is the only efficient thing in Oceania?
(a) The Transportation Authority.
(b) The Thought Police.
(c) The Tax Collection Agency.
(d) The Ministry of Plenty.

3. What is the most feared place in the Ministry of Love?
(a) Room 101.
(b) The Room of Pain.
(c) Room X.
(d) Room 666.

4. What does everybody do when tortured?
(a) Bleed to death.
(b) Repent their sins.
(c) Scream.
(d) Confess.

5. What does Winston remember above all about his childhood?
(a) Big Brother was everywhere.
(b) There was never enough to eat.
(c) His mother never loved him.
(d) Atomic bombs were falling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important word does not exist in Newspeak?

2. How long has O'Brien been watching Winston?

3. What does the Party claim to have invented?

4. What is in Room 101?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What does Winston admire about his mother?

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

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

7. What is unusual about O'Brien? Do you think he can be trusted? Why or why not?

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

9. According to Goldstein's book, why is a state of perpetual war necessary? For what purpose?

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

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