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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 Mr. Charrington order the officers to do in Part 2, Chapter 10?
(a) Let them go.
(b) Kill Julia.
(c) Pick up the pieces of the paperweight.
(d) Stand down.

2. What does the area where Inner Party members live smell like?
(a) Good food and good tobacco.
(b) Good food and good wine.
(c) Good food and good coffee.
(d) Good food and good friends.

3. What did Winston steal from his baby sister?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Candy.
(d) Money.

4. Why was Parsons arrested?
(a) He killed his wife and children.
(b) He was slacking off at work.
(c) He wanted to change the name of Hate Week.
(d) He is guilty of Thoughtcrime.

5. What does Winston's bed feel like in Part 3, Chapter 2?
(a) Heaven.
(b) A slab of granite.
(c) A bed of nails.
(d) A camp bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Part 2, Chapter 7, what remains impregnable?

2. What is the title of Emmanuel Goldstein's book?

3. What are the three stages to Winston's reintegration?

4. Why was Ampleforth arrested?

5. Who does Winston say to give the rat torture to instead of him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Winston feel towards O'Brien in Part 3, Chapter 2? Why do you think this is?

2. At the end of Part 2, Chapter 5, what does Winston realize about the Party and their orthodoxy? How does this relate to the everyday citizens of Oceania?

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

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

5. When questioned by O'Brien, Winston and Julia state that they are willing to commit many crimes, including the killing of innocent people. Do you think this is justifiable, given the terrible nature of the Party?

6. What does Winston think the Party and the Ministry of Love can never do? Why?

7. How is the Brotherhood organized, and why?

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

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

10. Winston tells Julia that she is "only a rebel from the waist downwards." What does he mean by this, and is it true?

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