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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Winston realize about secrets?

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

3. What does the area where Inner Party members live smell like?

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

5. What is the most feared place in the Ministry of Love?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Winston admire about his mother?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How is the Brotherhood organized, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay arguing either for or against the creation of a secret police force in America. Be sure to back up your opinions with examples from history and lessons learned from past governments.

Essay Topic 2

Winston has a terrible fear of pain. He hates it more than anything else and is willing to do almost anything in order to avoid pain. Write an essay on pain, and Winston's experience with it. Be sure to cover:

1) How pain influences Winston throughout the book.

2) Possible reasons why Winston fears pain so much.

3) Possible ways that Winston could have controlled his fear of pain.

4) How your attitude towards pain is similar or different to that of Winston.

Essay Topic 3

What makes us human?

1) Explain what you think the most important element of "being human" is. It can be an emotion, or human characteristic such as the need for expression or the ability to love.

2) Provide examples from the real world showing individuals and how they have used that emotion or human aspect to change the world.

3) Explain how you think this human element will change the world in the future.

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