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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Winston recognize the junk shop?
(a) Seven wooden books.
(b) Four smiling fairies.
(c) Three metal balls.
(d) Two ivory birds.

2. Katharine has two names for sex. One is "making a baby." What is the other?
(a) You-know-what.
(b) Our duty to the party.
(c) The unspeakable.
(d) Our shared responsibility.

3. What important thing does Winston do when he comes home in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) He gets drunk.
(b) He attempts suicide.
(c) He makes a plan to assassinate Big Brother.
(d) He starts a diary.

4. What does Julia say is "the only way to stay safe"?
(a) Do as the Oceanians do.
(b) Always yell with the crowd.
(c) Be an informant.
(d) Listen to Big Brother.

5. When the Thought Police secretly arrest and execute someone, most people would say that person has been _______.
(a) Vaporized.
(b) Annihilated.
(c) Cleansed.
(d) Deleted.

6. What is the minimum age for joining the Spies?
(a) Nine.
(b) Eight.
(c) Seven.
(d) Six.

7. What type of hats do capitalists supposedly wear?
(a) Baseball caps.
(b) Top hats.
(c) Berets.
(d) Helmets.

8. What is the prole woman doing outside the window in Part 2, Chapter 4?
(a) Singing and hanging laundry.
(b) Chanting and walking by.
(c) Humming and painting.
(d) Whistling and gardening.

9. Why did Parsons' daughter report a man to the police?
(a) They heard him swearing at Big Brother.
(b) He was wearing strange shoes.
(c) He was from Eurasia.
(d) He was a member of the Brotherhood.

10. In Part 1, Chapter 7, Winston wonders, as he had many times before, if he is a _________.
(a) Revolutionary.
(b) Lunatic.
(c) Loser.
(d) Radical.

11. What ailment does Winston suffer from?
(a) Swollen lymph nodes.
(b) A varicose ulcer.
(c) Varicose veins.
(d) Diabetes.

12. What keeps falling on London?
(a) Rocketbombs.
(b) Airplanes.
(c) Acid rain.
(d) Dogs and cats.

13. When Winston sees the prostitute in the light, he sees that she is _____.
(a) Old.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) A man.
(d) Young.

14. In Newspeak, what word will eventually replace "bad"?
(a) Notgood.
(b) Non-plussed.
(c) Uh-oh.
(d) Ungood.

15. Why does Julia ask Winston to turn around in Part 2, Chapter 4?
(a) So she can undress.
(b) So she can dress.
(c) So she an get a gift out of her bag.
(d) So she can put on makeup.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Winston's "friend" who works at the Research Department?

2. What concealed danger does Winston have to be careful of in the countryside?

3. In Part 1, Chapter 5, what is one of the latest, favorite phrases of the Ministry of Plenty?

4. How does Julia describe herself?

5. What does the note left by the individual whom Winston sees in the hall say?

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