1984 Study Guide
Please write answers to these questions on separate paper or type them. I will sometimes collect them. I sometimes will
stamp and record them. I always will allow you to use your study guides on the quizzes, which we have nearly every day. Use
your reading calendar to determine which chapters are due on which days. You will not be able to use this sheet of
questions – only your answers.
Part 2, Chapter 2, Due May 7th
1. Over what distance does one need a passport?
2. When Julia asks Winston what he thought of her before that day, how does he respond?
What does Julia rip off her body?
3. What does Winston tell Julia he thought of her before?
4. What does Julia pull out of her pocket? Where did she get it?
During this scene, a thrush appears. Orwell describes the thrush in detail. What do you think the thrush symbolizes?
5. What does Julia say is the only way to stay safe?
6. What does Julia say she saw in Winston?
7. Winston says the place is just like what other place?
8. When Winston finds out that Julia has done this with scores of other men, what is Winston’s reaction?
9. Winston is not really interested in love. What is he interested in and why?
10. What does Julia say when Winston asks, “have you done this before?”
11. How does Winston feel about her answer? Why?
12. In the context of the story, explain why Winston says” “I have purity, I have goodness! I don’t want any virtue to exist
anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”
Part 2, Chapter 3, Due May 7th
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Julia and Winston have very little time to meet. What keeps Julia so busy and why does she do it?
Describe Pornosec
When did Julia have her first love affair?
What does Julia think of the Brotherhood?
What is ‘goodthinkful”?
What does Julia mean when she says “All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone
sour.”
When Julia awoke, how did her demeanor change?
Where are Julia and Winston to meet four days hence?
What will be the sign that the coast is clear?
Where does Julia have to be at 19:30 and how is this ironic?
What does Julia call the kind of talking where they have to keep stopping and starting because they are worried about
being detected?
What did Julia talk Winston into volunteering to do?
Who does the Party pick to work in Pornosec and why?
Explain Julia’s first love affair.
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What Newspeak word does Winston use to describe his wife Katherine?
What was more important about depriving people of sexual relationships?
How did the Party attack parenthood?
Winston thinks to himself that Katherine probably would have called the Thought Police on him if weren’t for what?
What did Winston almost do one time? Now he regrets not having done it…
Part 2, Chapter 4, Due ______
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Who is Mr. Charrington and where do Julia and Winston now meet?
2) What is a “versificator”?
3) Julia shows up with groceries. Where did she get them?
4) What does Julia talk about that horrifies Winston?
5) Describe the paperweight. Why does Winston like it? How is the paperweight like a metaphor for their relationship?
6) Nursery rhymes are mentioned throughout the novel. Write two verses of a nursery rhyme you sang as a child. Google the
song and write a few notes about the origins. What is Orwell pointing out by mentioning nursery rhymes so often? (Hint: Inner
and Outer party members are not allowed to sing these songs.)
PART II: Chapter V Due ______
1) Describe some of the details of Some’s disappearance?
2) List 5 non-violent preparations being made for Hate Week.
3) List 3 acts of violence likely engineered by the Party for Hate Week.
4) List 4-5 things Julia believes that surprises Winston.
6) What does Winston mean when he says, “You’re only a rebel from the waist downwards.”
PART II: Chapter VI Due ______
1. Under what pretense are Winston and O’Brien meeting?
2. What changes have been made to the 10th Edition of Newspeak? What might the Party’s motive be in making this
particular change?
3. When talking about Newspeak, O’Brien references a friend of Winston. What is the name and what happens when
O’Brien talks about him?
4. What does O’Brien offer to let Winston see?
5. .What did Winston do with the address?
6. What are Winston’s feelings about his meeting with O’Brien?