FIRST CERTIFICATE EXAM - ANSWERS SET BOOK # 1 TEST

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR - George Orwell

1.

Winston is afraid of ...

 

D.    rats

2.

Julia is a member of ...

 

C.    the Junior Anti-Sex League

3.

The following is not a Newspeak word:

 

A.    justice

4.

"Facecrime" is ...

 

C.    wearing an improper expression on your face

5.

Winston's hostile and glaring colleague in the Records Department is named ...

 

A.    Tillotson

6.

The sash around Julia's waist is ...

 

C.    scarlet

7.

Complete the slogan: "Who controls the past, controls the future; ..."

 

B.   ... who controls the present, controls the past."

8.

Comrade Ogilvy is ...

 

A.    a fictitious person created by Winston for a rewritten Times article

9.

Both Syme and Parsons ask Winston if he has any spare ...

 

B.    razor blades

10.

Winston predicts that all of the following will be vaporized except ...

 

C.    Parsons

11.

All of the following are (presumably) vaporized except ...

 

A.   O'Brien

12.

At the climax of the Two Minutes Hate, Goldstein's face turns into ...

 

B.    the face of a sheep

13.

Winston reflects that the only thing that is "cheap and plentiful" is ...

 

C.    synthetic gin

14.

Complete the slogan: "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is ...

 

C.    Strength." 

15.

Early in the novel, what change affects the chocolate ration?

 

C.    It is reduced from 30 g/wk to 20 g/wk.

16.

According to Syme, what is "orthodoxy"?

 

C.    unconsciousness

17.

According to Winston, where does hope lie?

 

A.    with the proles

18.

The current name of Britain is ...

 

C.    Airstrip One

19.

What is the nickname the proles have for rocket bombs?

 

C.    steamer

20.

In his diary, Winston defines freedom as ...

 

C.   the freedom to say that two plus two make four

21.

Winston identifies the voice which says "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness" as belonging to ...

 

C.    O'Brien

22.

What did Winston steal from his younger sister?

 

A.    chocolate

23.

Mr. Charrington offers to sell Winston a print of ...

 

B.    St. Clement's Dane

24.

Inside the glass paperweight is ...

 

D.   a piece of pink coral

25.

Why do tears spring to Rutherford's eyes in the Chestnut Street Cafe?

 

B.    A song, "Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me",
             comes over the telescreen

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