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Worksheets'1984' Chapter 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What time of the day and season does '1984' open with?
a)
Morning, Winter
b)
Afternoon, Winter
c)
Morning, Summer
d)
Afternoon, Spring
2.
What enters Victory Mansions along with Winston?
a)
A puppy
b)
Two puppies
c)
Dust
d)
A lady
3.
What's the smell that hits Winston when he enters his apartment building?
a)
Rose and lavender
b)
New mats
c)
boiled potatoes
d)
boiled cabbage
4.
Why did Winston use the stairs instead of the lift?
a)
BIG BROTHER was watching him in the lift.
b)
The lift did not work because of an economy drive
c)
There was no lift in the building
d)
He lived on the first floor, so using the stairs was no big deal
5.
Winston was :
a)
Fair, handsome, with smooth skin
b)
Had dark hair, smooth face
c)
Fair hair, smooth face
d)
Fair hair, roughened face
6.
INGSOC is an allusion to:
a)
Integrated Society
b)
English Socialism
c)
Integrated Socialism
d)
Internal Socialism
7.
What was the voice on the tele screen babbling about?
a)
Production of pig-iron
b)
Eastasia's attack on Oceania
c)
BIG BROTHER's daily speech to the Party
d)
Goldstein's threat to Oceania
8.
Which of the following ministries is not mentioned in Chapter 1
a)
Minitrue
b)
Minihate
c)
Miniluv
d)
Minipax
9.
Why did Winston hide himself from the telescreen?
a)
He wanted to read a book
b)
He wanted to write a letter
c)
He wanted to write a diary
d)
He wanted to commit a crime
10.
What date does Winston's diary start from?
a)
September 9, 1948
b)
September 9, 1984
c)
April 4, 1984
d)
April 30, 1948
11.
What's the first thing Winston writes in his diary?
a)
A film review
b)
Report on Hate Week
c)
His feelings about O'Brien
d)
His views on Oceania
12.
The dark-haired girl Winston remembers is:
a)
Timid, about 23, works in Mintrue
b)
confident, freckled face, athletic and works for Minpax
c)
bold-looking, about 27 and works in the Fiction Department
d)
Wears a scarlet sash, shapely hips, works for Mintrue
13.
O'Brien is portrayed as:
a)
Urbane with a prizefighter's physique
b)
Unorthodox, urbane, prizefighter's physique
c)
Friendly, intelligent, overweight
d)
Cunning, intelligent, urbane
14.
What happened during the 2 minute hate?
a)
The audience watched Goldstein speak about his book
b)
Winston made eye contact with O'Brien
c)
The dark-haired girl made eye contact with Winston
d)
Winston transferred his hatred of Big Brother to O'Brien
15.
Goldstein is described as:
a)
lean Russian face, fuzzy white hair, with voice of a sheep bleating
b)
lean Jewish face, fuzzy dark hair, deep sombre voice
c)
urbane and formal
d)
lean Jewish face, fuzzy white hair with voice of a bleating sheep
16.
What is Goldstein seeing as doing in the movie clip?
a)
Advocating freedom of speech, freedom of thought and freedom of the press
b)
Denouncing Big Brother and praising the party
c)
Speaking with endless columns of Eastasia army marching behind him
d)
Winston secretly liked Goldstein
17.
O'Brien seemed to be saying to him.'I know precisely what you are feeling. I know all about your contempt, your hatred, your disgust'. Literary devices here could be:
a)
Simile, repetition, flashback
b)
Metaphor, parallelism, foreshadowing
c)
Irony, foreshadowing, parallelism
d)
Imagery, irony, foreshadowing
18.
Why did Winston not abandon writing the diary?
a)
He had not yet committed a thought crime
b)
Keeping a diary was a crime
c)
He had written DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER 5 times
d)
It made no difference if he wrote or didn't write it
19.
'theyll shoot me i dont care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i don't care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back'. What does it tell us about Winston's actions at this point?
a)
He is scared of BIG BROTHER
b)
He defies conventions
c)
He's scared of the Thought Police
d)
Primacy of expression over thought
20.
Why does Orwell present a knock on the door at the very moment Winston starts writing the diary?
a)
The Thought Police have come to take him away
b)
His neighbour has come to talk to him
c)
Makes it dramatic and introduces suspense
d)
Uses it for foreshadowing
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