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

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

3. What does O'Brien show to Winston in Part 3, Chapter 2?
(a) The photograph of the three Party members.
(b) The photograph of Big Brother.
(c) The photograph of his mother and sister.
(d) The photograph of Julia's corpse.

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

5. According to Part 2, Chapter 7, what remains impregnable?
(a) The truth.
(b) The inner heart.
(c) The Ministry of Love.
(d) Julia's will.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Winston feel towards Big Brother?

2. What is the specialty gin of the cafe?

3. What are the three stages to Winston's reintegration?

4. In Part 3, Chapter 6, what does Winston have plenty of these days?

5. Who does Winston say to give the rat torture to instead of him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Brotherhood organized, and why?

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

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

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

5. What does Winston admire about his mother?

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

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

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

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

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

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