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NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
George Orwell

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1. Allowed time for this test is 40 minutes, so please try to stick to this time schedule.

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3. This test consists of 25 (twenty-five) questions covering situations and character analysis studied during the reading of NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR by George Orwell.

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For questions 1-25, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to George Orwell's novel. Then check the correct answers.

HOW TO EVALUATE: 4 (four) marks for each correct answer. Maximum scoring: 100 marks

1.

Winston is afraid of ...

 

A.    slugs
B. 
  worms
C. 
  dogs
D. 
  rats

2.

Julia is a member of ...

 

A.    the Brotherhood
B. 
  the Spies
C. 
  the Junior Anti-Sex League
D. 
  the Inner Party

3.

The following is not a Newspeak word:

 

A.    justice
B. 
  Minipeaceful
C. 
  goodwise
D. 
  pluscold

4.

"Facecrime" is ...

 

A.    defacing a poster of Big Brother
B. 
  any act which appears on the surface to be illegal, but is not
C. 
  wearing an improper expression on your face
D. 
  spraying graffiti on the outside of a building

5.

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

 

A.    Tillotson
B. 
  Ampleforth
C. 
  Ogilvy
D. 
  Syme

6.

The sash around Julia's waist is ...

 

A.    green
B. 
  white
C. 
  scarlet
D. 
  gold



 

7.

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

 

A.    ... who controls the past also controls the present."
B. 
 ... who controls the present, controls the past."
C. 
  ... who controls the present also controls the future."
D. 
  ... who controls the future, controls the present."

8.

Comrade Ogilvy is ...

 

A.    a fictitious person created by Winston for a rewritten Times article
B. 
  Winston's neighbor in the Records Department
C. 
  a war-hero-turned-traitor who evaded capture and disappeared
D. 
  a fellow worker of Julia's in the Fiction Department

9.

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

 

A.    chocolate
B. 
  razor blades
C. 
  shaving cream
D. 
  Victory cigarettes

10.

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

 

A.    O'Brien
B. 
  Himself
C. 
  Parsons
D. 
  Syme

11.

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

 

A.   O'Brien
B. 
  Parsons
C. 
  Winston
D. 
  Syme

12.

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

 

A.    the face of Big Brother
B. 
  the face of a sheep
C. 
  the face of a rat
D. 
  the face of a Eurasian

13.

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

 

A.    sugar
B. 
  tea
C. 
  synthetic gin
D. 
  Victory coffee

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