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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 do Mrs. Parsons' children want to see in Part 1, Chapter 2?
(a) A play.
(b) A hanging.
(c) A movie.
(d) A picture.

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

3. What is used only by the proles?
(a) Perfume.
(b) Hand tools.
(c) Soap.
(d) Drugs.

4. "The Revolution will be complete when the ______ is perfect."
(a) Evolution.
(b) Telescreen.
(c) Language.
(d) Number.

5. What doesn't Winston give Ogilvy?
(a) The Order of Oceania.
(b) The Silver Cross.
(c) The Order of Conspicuous Merit.
(d) The Keys to the City.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Newspeak name for people who have been vaporized?

2. What device is used to write songs?

3. Who is the vaporized man Winston must delete from The Times?

4. What does the prostitute not have?

5. How does Victory Gin smell?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. "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?

3. Look up the word "comrade" up in a dictionary. Why do you think everyone in Oceania is supposed to call each other comrade?

4. Why are the proles the only force capable of overthrowing the Party?

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

6. Why do you think Winston was unable to prevent himself from having sex with the prostitute?

7. Why doesn't Winston kill the girl with the dark hair? Who else doesn't he kill for very similar reasons?

8. What is the difference between Winston and Julia's feelings about their future?

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

10. Why does Winston think Syme will be vaporized? What does Syme lack?

(see the answer keys)

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