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Worksheets1984 - Chapters 2 and 3
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
What "inconceivably stupid thing" does Winston realise he has done just before opening the door?
Left his diary open on the table
Said "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" audibly
Covered his telescreen
Shaved his head
What are members of the Party supposed to call one another?
Sir/Madam
Friend
Colleague
Comrade
What is the name of his neighbour who is at the door?
Mrs Parsons
Mrs Jones
Mr Smith
Ms Davis
What does Winston suspect - and later discover - is in the creases of Mrs Parsons' face?
Dust
Old make-up
Dirt
Chocolate
What adorns the walls of the Parsons' flat? Tick all that apply.
Scarlet banner of the Youth League
Scarlet banner of the Spies
A full-sized poster of Big Brother
The children's graffiti
What does Winston do at the Parsons' flat?
Fix the toilet
Fix the sink
Help reach a pan from a high shelf
Look after the children
Why are the children disappointed?
They are too young to join the Youth League
Their father wouldn't let them go to work with him
They couldn't go to see the hanging
Winston won't play with them
An "eavesdropping little sneak" who had "denounced his parents to the Thought Police" would be called what phrase in The Times?
"little comrade"
"child hero"
"future leader"
"Little Brother"
Seven years ago, Winston heard what phrase in a dream?:
"We shall meet in the place where there is no (a) ."
What does Winston do so he will know if the diary has been discovered?
Places a hair laid across the page-ends
Writes "Winston's secret diary: keep out or else ;)" on the cover
Puts a grain of dust on the corner of the cover
Nothing - he will be immediately arrested if it is discovered anyway
In his waking thoughts, what does Winston call the landscape he sees recurrently in his dreams?
("an old, rabbit-bitten pasture, with a foot-track wandering across it")
The Golden Country
England
The Green and Pleasant Land
My Childhood Place
Winston wakes with what word on his lips?
Help
Wordsworth
Thoughtcrime
Shakespeare
What "furtive knowledge" does Winston possess because his memory is "not satisfactorily under control"?
That four years ago Oceania was at war with Eastasia, not Eurasia
That Big Brother doesn't really exist
That Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father
Where to buy chocolate on the black market
Complete the first half of this Party slogan:
"Who controls the past, controls the (a) "
Complete the second half of this Party slogan:
"Who controls the (a) , controls the past."
An "unending series of victories over your own memory" is called "reality control". What is it called in Newspeak?
Doublethink
Thoughtcrime
Realitycon
Weird
Complete this quotation:
"Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of (a) ."
"Ingsoc" is the Newspeak word for what?
English Socialism
English Society
Ingrained Socialism
Ingenious Society
What disrupts Winston's train of thought about the falsification of historical facts?
A knock at the door
He hears the Parsons children scream in the corridor
The telescreen lets out a sudden shrill noise
The voice from the telescreen addresses him by name
At the end of Chapter 3, what does Winston succeed in doing for the first time in several years?
Touching his toes with knees unbent
10 push-ups
10 star jumps without a coughing fit
Downward Dog
