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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 decide to do with the prostitute?
(a) Pay her to not tell anyone he was there.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Kill her.
(d) Have sex with her.

2. In Part 2, Chapter 3, what is Winston sorry he didn't do to his wife?
(a) Pay her off.
(b) Love her.
(c) Kill her.
(d) Divorce her.

3. For whom is Winston writing his diary?
(a) O'Brien.
(b) Big Brother.
(c) Ampleforth.
(d) Katharine.

4. Where does Winston miss a meeting in Part 1, Chapter 8?
(a) With his accountant.
(b) The Ministry of Truth.
(c) The Community Center.
(d) The Hate Week planning committee.

5. What does Winston think will happen to Syme?
(a) He will become Big Brother.
(b) He will die from drinking too much gin.
(c) He will flee Oceania.
(d) He will be vaporized.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Parsons' children to do the old market-woman?

2. What is the last thing the dark-haired girl does before departing from Winston in Part 2, Chapter 1?

3. When the Thought Police secretly arrest and execute someone, most people would say that person has been _______.

4. What does one of the Parsons children use to hit Winston in the neck?

5. What does Julia say is "the only way to stay safe"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What might the woman singing in the street symbolizes?

2. Who was comrade Ogilvy, and what was he like? How did he supposedly die?

3. Why does Winston keep thinking about O'Brien? What does O'Brien represents to Winston?

4. In Winston's dream, the man O'Brien says "We will meet in the place where there is no darkness." What do you think he meant by this?

5. How would you have reacted to the note? What would you have done differently, and why?

6. Why will no Party woman wear perfume?

7. Where does Winston work, and what is his job? Why does he have to do this?

8. In your own words, how does Winston describe Mr. Parsons?

9. How have Winston's feelings towards Julia changed by Part 2, Chapter 4?

10. Judging by the dream Winston has about the girl with dark hair, how does he appear to feel about her?

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