1984 Quiz 2: Pick 10 out of the 12 multiple choice to answer
1.What does O'Brien do that initially makes Winston feel safe in his apartment?
a.
b.
c.
d.
O'Brien offers Winston a glass of wine.
O'Brien kisses Winston on the cheek.
O'Brien turns off the telescreen.
O'Brien reveals that he has had sex with Julia.
2.What does O'Brien promise to give to Winston?
a.
b.
c.
d.
A key to the Brotherhood's secret headquarters
Proof of the Party's lies
A ticket out of the country
The Brotherhood's manifesto
3. Where does Winston believe he will meet O'Brien again?
a.
b.
c.
d.
In the place where there is no darkness
In the afterlife
In the secret headquarters of the Brotherhood
In St. Clement's Church
4. How does Julia react to what Winston reads from the manifesto?
a.
b.
c.
d.
She is horrified and angered.
She claims that it is false.
She falls asleep.
She begins to cry.
5. According to Winston and Julia, who might hold the key to the future?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The red-armed woman prole
Goldstein
Others like them
John Connor
6. Where in Winston and Julia's room was the telescreen hidden?
a.
b.
c.
d.
In the glass paperweight
Under the old wallpaper
Behind the picture of St. Clement's Church
In the ceiling
7. What is "the place where there is no darkness"?
a.
b.
c.
d.
A courtroom
A prison cell
The mind
An operating room
8. What happens to Winston to make him realize it's impossible for him to be a hero?
a.
b.
c.
d.
His elbow is smashed in by a guard.
He is bribed with money.
The Party threatens to kill Julia.
He is drugged.
9. Why does Winston feel gratitude toward O'Brien?
a.
b.
c.
d.
O'Brien saves Winston from being shot.
Winston feels this will bring O'Brien to end his torture.
O'Brien acknowledges Winston's loyalty to Julia.
O'Brien gives Winston a small portion of extra food.
10. What is in Room 101?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The worst thing in the world
An electric chair
Julia
Geometry
11. How does O'Brien know that Winston is finally "cured"?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Winston professes his love for O'Brien.
Winston promises to always love Big Brother.
Winston denies his own existence.
Winston betrays Julia.12. What does Winston trace on the café table?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Down with Big Brother
Big Brother is watching
2+2=5
Winston + Julia = 4eva
12. How does the image of Big Brother makes Winston feel at the end of the novel?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Safe and happy
Proud
Scared and paranoid
Energetic and excited
Short answer: Pick 10 out of the following 23 questions to answer. You may
answer on this page or on a separate piece of paper.
1. Why does Winston believe the proles have “stayed human” while Party
members like himself and Julia have not?
2. What does Winston say would be the “real betrayal”?
3. What is the one thing Winston and Julia decide the Party cannot do?
4. How does the Brotherhood alter its members’ identities?
5. Why does O’Brien say the Brotherhood can never be wiped out?
6. To what idea does Winston suggest he, Julia, and O’Brien drink the last of
the wine?
7. What does O’Brien tell Winston he will have delivered to him by a man
with a briefcase?
8. What is blackwhite?
9. What does Goldstein say lies at the very heart of Ingsoc?
10. For what two reasons does the Party find it necessary to alter the past?
11. Who denounced Parsons for thoughtcrime?
12. Where does the starving man try to prevent the guards from taking him?
13. What does Winston realize he has always known?
14. What does O’Brien show to Winston before dropping it down a memory
hole?
15. What fact does O’Brien say Winston must relearn?
16. What is O’Brien trying to get Winston to see by turning the dial?
17. What three phrases does Winston write on the slate?
18. What dangerous thought occurs to Winston that prompts him to train
himself in crimestop?
19. What is the “unspoken tradition” about how the Party executes people?
20. What happens that causes Winston to cry out?
21. To what does Winston compare the way Julia’s body feels now?
22. What reason do Winston and Julia give for no longer feeling the way they
once did about each other?
23. What is Winston’s new job?