Chapter 1
1.
What does the first sentence of the book suggest?
2.
What does the main character’s name suggest?
3.
What does his hallway smell like? Why might it smell this way?
4.
What week are people preparing for? What might this be?
5.
What is the caption of the poster on the wall?
6.
Who patrols the city?
7.
What are the four branches (ministries) of government and with what are they concerned?
8.
How is Winston’s telescreen different from most?
9.
What “dangerous” act is Winston about to undertake and what is the possible punishment?
10.
What year is it? Is there complete certainty about the date?
11.
At what were the people in the theatre laughing?
12.
What two people did Winston notice? What important characteristics does he note?
13.
Who is the focus of the Two Minutes Hate? What do we learn about him?
14.
Oceania (Winston’s country) is presently at war with which country?
15.
What kinds of things happen during the Two Minutes Hate?
16.
What are the three slogans of the Party?
17.
Why does Winston hate the girl behind him and what does her red sash symbolize?
18.
What is the slogan of the party? Why is this important?
19.
What does Winston write in his diary?
20.
What is Thoughtcrime? Who enforces it? What is the usual punishment and what is the
specific word usually used to refer to it?
Chapter 2
1.
Who are the Parsons? Describe their apartment.
2.
What is in the crevices of Comrade Parsons’ face?
3.
How do the children taunt Winston?
4.
Why are they upset?
5.
How are children indoctrinated into the Party at an early age?
6.
What’s the problem with appealing to the future?
6.
What are the sacred principles of INGSOC? What does INGSOC stand for?
7.
What does Winston write about Thoughtcrime in his diary?
Chapter 3
1.
What does he remember about why his mother and sister died?
2.
What is the Golden Country? Describe his dream of it.
3.
What does Winston remember about his past?
4.
How many powers are in control and what are their names and alliances?
5.
What is Airstrip One? How might of it receives its name
6.
What is doublethink? Explain in detail
Chapter 4
1.
What is Winston’s job?
2.
What is the irony of the production figures?
3.
What happens to books?
4.
What kind of literature does Winston’s department produce for the proles?
5.
Withers is not dead -- he is an unperson. What is the difference between the two?
6.
Who is Comrade Ogilvy?
7.
Who does the story allude to?
Chapter 5
1.
Who is Syme?
2.
What item is difficult to find? Why might this be?
3.
What does Syme describe as “Good.”
4.
Explain Newspeak. What is it? What is peculiar about this language?
5.
What do they describe as a “beautiful thing.”
6.
What will happen to writers such as Chaucer or Shakespeare?
7.
Describe Comrade Parsons.
8.
What happened to the rations of Chocolate?
9.
What will happen to Mr. Parsons as opposed to Winston, Symes, and Mrs. Parsons.
10.
What’s a facecrime?
Chapter 6
1.
What does Winston write about in his diary?
2.
What kind of relationship do we find out Winston had?
3.
What does Winston reveal about prostitution?
4.
What is the Party’s view of marriage? Of sex?
5.
What is the Junior Anti-Sex League?
6.
How did Katherine refer to having sexual encounters?
7.
What do we find out about Winston’s “encounter” with a woman at the end of Chapter 6
Chapter 7
1.
According to Winston, where does the hope lie? Hope for what?
2.
What is the Party’s opinion of the proles ( give specific details)?
3.
Compare the ideal life set up by the Party with the reality.
4.
What was the “evidence” that Winston had once been in possession of and what did it prove?
5.
Why did Winston believe the “If there is hope it lies in the proles?”
6.
Why was the fight over the cooking pots a disappointment to Winston?
7.
Why weren’t the proles indoctrinated with the Ideology of the Party?
Chapter 8
1.
What is the importance of the community center and its attendance?
2.
What is the uniform of the party?
3.
What is a steamer and what happens with the incident with the steamer? How do people react three or
four minutes later?
4.
What is the lottery?
5. .
What does Winston want the old man to tell him about? Why?
6.
What does Winston say about the Capitalists?
7.
What shop does Winston end up stopping at?
8.
What does Winston end up buying? Why?
9.
Describe Mr. Charrington.
10.
Who does Winston see when he leaves the shop?
11.
What is recommended a person should do before the police get to you?
12.
Where is the place with no darkness?
13.
What words come back to Winston?