1984 Test Preview
Friday, March 27
3 grades
I. Newspeak Words
• On your answer sheet, you will write the
Newspeak word being described.
• 15 (1 Point each)
• #9. The ministry in charge of law and order
in Oceania
II. Character Matching
• List of major (Julia) and minor (Tillotson) at
the top of the page.
• 15 short descriptions (person made up by
Winston due to the disgraced person who
needed to be eliminated from all
publications.)
III. Short Answers
• 10 (2 pts. Each)
• Questions cover the introductory notes,
Cronkite’s “Preface,” T and P of OC.
• The test therefore has 50 points.
• -5=A-, -10=B-, etc.
Characters
•
Winston Smith
•
Winston’s Sister (both sister and mother taken by
the party, died when Winston was a child, taken
after Winston stole his sisters chocolate)
•
Winston’s mother
•
Julia
•
O’Brien
•
Big Brother
•
Emmanuel Goldstein (Left Oceania because he
went against party)
•
Mrs. Parsons (neighbor)
•
Mr. Parsons (Neighbor, Winston sees him in his
holding cell)
•
Parsons Kids (Junior spies, turned in father)
•
Tilloston (coworker, sits across from Winston,
Secretive about work)
•
Lord Acton (Power corrupts, absolute power
corrupts abolutely)
•
Prole woman singing (outside shop)
•
Mr. Charrington (owned shop, secret member of
thought police)
•
Martin (O’Brien’s servant)
•
Comrade Withers (unperson, vaporized covered
up by ogilvy)
•
Ogilvy (Made up person by Winston)
•
Jones, Aaronson, Rutherford (wrongly arrested
and convicted for treason and murder, killed)
•
Starving Man (Man yelling “not room 101”)
•
Bumstead (Prisoner in miniluv, Offers starving
man bread)
•
Instructor doing exercise on the Telescreen
•
Katherine (Winstons ex-wife)
•
The old prole in the pub
•
Eric Blair
Ampleforth (In holding cell, Allowed word ‘God’ in
poem)
•
•
Syme (created newspeak dictionary, vaporized)
Oceania
Airstrip One
Eurasia
Eastasia
Telescreen
Thought Police
Double Think
Victory Mansion
Minipax
Miniluv
Miniplenty
Minitrue
Proles
Inner party
Outer party
Face crime
Newspeak Glossary
Junior Spies
Physical Jerks
Thoughtcrime
Golden Country
Floating Fortress
Ingsoc (Name of Oceanias gov)
Newspeak
Oldspeak
2 min of hate and hate week
Malabar Front
•Unperson
•Crimestop
•Blackwhite
•Memoryhold
•Speakwrite
•Doubleplus
•Big brother
•Sex crime