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Worksheets1984 - COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 21mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following is NOT a Party slogan?
a)
War is peace
b)
Love is hate
c)
Ignorance is strength
d)
Freedom is slavery
2.
What is the function of the Ministry of Love?
a)
to raise children
b)
to arrange dates for single people
c)
to maintain law and order
d)
Both A and B
3.
What date does the main character record into a diary?
a)
April 4th, 1948
b)
January 1, 1948
c)
April 4th, 1984
d)
No date is recorded
4.
When Winston sees the girl with dark hair, he is immediately attracted to her. He thinks she is someone with whom he can talk and trust.
a)
True
b)
False
5.
What is the name of the Inner Party member that Winston sees, and makes eye contact with during the Two Minutes Hate?
a)
Big Brother
b)
Goldstein
c)
Parsons
d)
O'Brien
6.
George Orwell is a pen name.
a)
True
b)
False
7.
How do members of the Party regard the proles?
a)
Proles are naturally inferior, and must be kept powerless.
b)
Proles need to be indoctrinated, and converted over into Party ideology.
c)
Lazy proles, they should all be sent to fight in the war.
8.
Who is the principle traitor?
a)
Big Brother
b)
Winston
c)
Goldstein
9.
Winston and Julia have been released. Now what?
a)
They're in love!
b)
They don't feel the same way about each other.
c)
They get married.
d)
They don't remember who the other person is.
10.
What is the goal of Newspeak?
a)
to make a new language
b)
to restrict thought
c)
to allow freedom of speech
d)
to keep people like Syme busy
11.
Despite its name, what is the real purpose of the Ministry of Truth?
a)
a. To collect information about the Party's enemies.
b)
b. To alter historical records to fit the Party's agenda
c)
c. To document historic events for future generations.
d)
d. To manage economic shortages in Oceania.
12.
What crime have people committed who are arrested in the middle of the night and vaporized?
a)
murder
b)
shoplifting
c)
spying
d)
thoughtcrime
13.
How does the government try to control everybody?
a)
Through the use of telescreens which hear and see your every move.
b)
Thought Police and by having Police Patrols look into people's windows.
c)
Use of children who act as spies and report their parents.
d)
All of the above.
14.
How does Winston feel about Julia’s sexual history?
a)
He’s worried that she won’t love him.
b)
He’s offended that she has slept with so many men.
c)
He’s thrilled by the rebellious nature of her past.
d)
He’s intimidated by her experience.
15.
How does O’Brien invite Winston to his house?
a)
He says he knows Winston is a rebel and would like him to join the Brotherhood.
b)
He strikes up a conversation with Winston about Syme and Newspeak then invites Winston to his house to get the new dictionary.
c)
He sends Winston a message though Martin, who delivers it in a brief case.
d)
He issues a telescreen memo that Winston is to report directly to his house.
16.
When Winston is first taken to the Ministry of Love, who is he most surprised to see in the cell with him?
a)
his mother
b)
Mr. Parsons
c)
O'Brien
d)
Julia
17.
After a long period of torture, O’Brien shows Winston his degraded and emaciated body in a mirror. What is O'Brien's purpose for doing this?
a)
To prove to Winston that the Party has destroyed him, as it will anyone who disobeys them.
b)
To show Winston that he is improving physically but needs to work on his emotional state.
c)
To scare him into capitulating.
d)
To show him what the rats have done to him.
18.
What privilege do Inner Party members have that the Outer Party members do not?
a)
They can marry for love
b)
They can write in their journals.
c)
They can turn off the telescreen for a little while.
d)
They can choose their jobs.
19.
What is the purpose of using rats on Winston in Room 101?
a)
Rats are his greatest fear and force him to betray Julia
b)
Rats are his greatest fear and force him to admit his hatred for Big Brother
c)
Rats are repulsive to most people so O’Brien takes a chance that they will also scare Winston.
d)
Rats cause Winston to lose consciousness.
20.
His job is to limit the words used in Newspeak in order to narrow the range of thought until no more thought is possible; he is eventually vaporized
a)
Tillotson
b)
Jones
c)
Ampleforth
d)
Syme
21.
A 45-year-old man with a black mustache and ruggedly handsome features who is the figurehead of the Party
a)
Winston
b)
Big Brother
c)
Aaronson
d)
Tom Parsons
22.
T/F: The controlling force of the Party is fear.
a)
True
b)
False
23.
T/F: The traditional family bonds of love between parents and children are encouraged by the Inner Party.
a)
True
b)
False
24.
Where was the telescreen in the apartment hidden?
a)
In the floorboards
b)
in the paperweight
c)
Behind a mirror
d)
Behind the painting
25.
What happens to Oceania's ally and enemy?
a)
They switch
b)
They fight each other exclusively
c)
They both surrender
d)
They blow up each other
26.
This society manipulates all aspects of its population's lives. In the first sentence, the author immediately sets the tone of the novel with which opening line?
a)
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
b)
Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions.
c)
The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats.
d)
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
27.
Which of the following does NOT occur at The Two Minutes Hate?
a)
The face of Emmanuel Goldstein flashes onto the screen.
b)
People scream and throw things.
c)
There are hypnotic-like chants for Big Brother.
d)
People inflict pain on each other.
28.
The children call Winston a Eurasian spy, threaten to vaporize him, and are upset about not being able to go see WHAT?
a)
The movies in Victory Square.
b)
A hanging.
c)
A parade.
d)
Spy training.
29.
Comrade Ogilvy is
a)
A fellow worker in the Fiction Department.
b)
A war hero-turned-traitor who evaded capture and disappeared.
c)
Winston's neighbor in the Records Department.
d)
A fictitious person created by Winston for a rewritten Times article.
30.
Finish the quote, " The object of power is____"
a)
control
b)
greed
c)
peace
d)
power
31.
According to O'Brien, how does one man assert his power over another?
a)
by keeping him under control
b)
by making him suffer
c)
by changing his memories
d)
by making him commit a thoughtcrime
32.
The Party produces newspapers, films, textbooks, television
programs, plays, novels, poetry, non-fiction texts, and pornography, which all act as
propaganda.
a)
True
b)
False
33.
Where is Winston imprisoned?
a)
The Ministry of Plenty
b)
The Ministry of Truth
c)
The Ministry of Love
d)
The Ministry of Peace
34.
Why does Winston believe Syme will fall out of favor with the party?
a)
He is too intelligent.
b)
He is short and ugly.
c)
He makes sarcastic comments about Big Brother.
d)
He knows too much about the inner Party.
35.
Mr. Charrington turns out to be a member of which group?
a)
The proles
b)
The rebellion
c)
Eurasia
d)
The Thought Police
36.
What describes Julia’s form of rebellion in comparison to Winston’s?
a)
Complete and uncompromising
b)
Strategic and well-planned
c)
Small and personal
d)
Violent and aggressive
37.
What does the Party exert its power through?
a)
Language control
b)
Physical and psychological intimidation
c)
The manipulation of history
d)
ALL OF THE ABOVE
38.
What does Winston believes his relationship with Julia is?
a)
Temporary
b)
Innocent and pure
c)
Superficial
d)
Codependent
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