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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 is the name of Winston's wife?
(a) Nancy.
(b) Katharine.
(c) Sue.
(d) Winnie.

2. What is there a shortage of in Oceania?
(a) Toothpaste.
(b) Razor blades.
(c) Combs.
(d) Hair gel.

3. In Part 2, Chapter 1, where do Winston and the dark-haired girl agree to meet?
(a) In Airstrip One, in a house.
(b) Victory square, near the monument.
(c) At the community center, after dark.
(d) In the train station, during rush hour.

4. What does Ampleforth have a talent for juggling?
(a) Rhymes and meters.
(b) Poetry and prose.
(c) Brightly colored balls.
(d) Print and punctuation.

5. What is Winston's apartment called?
(a) Grenadier Apartments.
(b) London House.
(c) Oceania View.
(d) Victory Mansions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Having an improper expression is called a ________.

2. What does Winston buy in the junk shop?

3. Consorting with prostitutes was "dangerous, ___________________." (Part 1, Chapter 6)

4. How does Victory Gin smell?

5. What is used only by the proles?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Why will no Party woman wear perfume?

3. Winston feels the worst things about life in Oceania are not its "cruelty and insecurity," but "its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness." Why might he feels this way?

4. What does Part 1, Chapter 1 show the reader about the quality of Oceania's services and products?

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

6. Look up the word "proletariat" in the dictionary. What does it mean? Why does the Party ignore the proles? Is this strange?

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

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

9. Winston fears that the dark-haired girl is not a member of the Thought Police; instead, she is an amateur spy. Why do you think the latter is more dangerous?

10. "All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary." What is a palimpsest, and why do you think the author used this word?

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