1984 Chapters 4-5 quiz, part 1

1. What happens to scrap paper at Winston's workplace?

• It is recycled.
• It is sent to the furnace.
• It is compacted.

2. Choose all of the documents that are altered to ensure that Big Brother is always correct.

• newspapers and books
• periodicals and pamphlets
• posters and leaflets

3. What is the sandy-haired woman's job?

• deleting people for the Thought Police
• deleting from the press the names of people who have been vaporized
• deleting undesirable images of Big Brother

4. What is the focus at the Records Department?

• to control every type of written text
• to control every type of video
• to control all media

5. What is Winston's greatest pleasure in life?

• leisure
• sleep
• work

6. What is Oldspeak?

• standard English
• Old English
• broken English

7. What does it mean that Withers is 'refs unpersons'?

• He is dead.
• He is missing.
• He is wanted.

8. What fictional character has been created recently by Winston's work group?

• Comrade Oliver
• Comrade Olivier
• Comrade Ogilvy

9. Choose all of the details of the fictional character's life.

• At age three he refused all toys except a drum
• At age six he joined the Spies
• At age eleven he turned over his uncle to the Thought Police.

10. Who else in the records department is working on this fictional story?

• the sandy-haired girl
• Tillotson
• O'Brien