WorksheetsNineteen Eighty-Four: Mega Revision Quiz
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 38mins
Which of these are features of Big Brother's appearance?
"A heavy black moustache"
"Ruggedly handsome features"
"A varicose ulcer above his right ankle"
"His hair was very fair"
"Dark eyes"
What is INGSOC short for?
English Socialism
Ingenious Sockets
Ingrowing Socks
Engineered Society
What does a telescreen do?
Broadcast sounds and videos
Record sounds and videos
Explode
Connect to Netflix
Show a morning workout routine
Which of these in Winston's workplace?
The Ministry of Truth (Minitrue)
The Ministry of Love (Miniluv)
The Ministry of Peace (Minipax)
The Ministry of Plenty (Miniplenty)
What type of gin and cigarettes does Winston buy?
Big Brother
Oceania
Victory
Freedom
"WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS (a) "?
Which Ministry is Winston the most frightened of?
The Ministry of Peace (Minipax)
The Ministry of Love (Miniluv)
The Ministry of Plenty (Miniplenty)
The Ministry of Truth (Minitrue)
In which year is Book 1 set?
1984
1983
The 1940s
It's impossible to know for sure
In the first chapter, Winston goes to "the flicks" to watch a film. In your own words, explain what he sees.
At what time each day does the Two Minutes' Hate take place?
11:00
13:00
07:15
21:00
Which of these could you probably be vaporised for?
Thoughtcrime
Doublethink
Writing in a diary
Having children
Which organisation are the Parsons' children members of?
The Brotherhood
The Spies
The Inner Party
The Junior Anti-Sex League
Where does Winston's "friend" Syme work?
The Ministry of Peace
The Research Department
The Inner Party
A junk shop
In Newspeak, how would you say that something was excellent?
Miniluv
Doubleplusgood
Excellent
Doubleplusungood
Katharine is Winston's wife. Which of these descriptions are about her?
"A tall, fair-haired girl, very straight, with splendid movements."
"She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements."
"She had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered."
"A colourless, crushed-looking woman, with wispy hair and a lined face... there was dust in the creases of her face."
Complete this Party slogan: " (a) and animals are free."
What does the Newspeak word "ownlife" mean?
Individualism
Your child
The Community Centre
Big Brother's command over your existence
Why doesn't Winston kill the dark-haired girl after seeing her outside the junk shop?
He realises that he loves her.
He decides that she is not a threat.
He is frozen by fear and doesn't think he can physically do it.
He needs to get back to the Community Centre as soon as possible.
What does Winston buy from the junk shop?
A diary.
A glass paperweight.
Razor blades.
Victory Cigarettes
Winston asks the prole man in the pub about the past, and whether he "would prefer to live then or now". What does the man reply?
Then.
Now.
It's impossible to say.
That he is going to report Winston to the Thought Police for asking.
What is different about Julia at the beginning of Book 2?
Her arm is in a sling
She has dyed her hair fluorescent pink
She has started wearing the black overalls of the Inner Party
She smells very badly of cabbages
Complete this quotation: "At the sight of the words I love you the desire to stay (a) had welled up in him."
In which of these locations do Julia and Winston secretly meet?
Paddington Station
Victory Square
A small clearing in the woods
A ruined church
The Ministry of Peace
Julia's first lover was sixty years old, and a member of the Party. How did he die?
(a)
Which of these objects would you see in the room above Charrington's shop?
An enormous bed
Winston's glass paperweight
A small oil stove and saucepan
An old-fashioned twelve-hour clock
A hidden telescreen
Complete the lyrics to the prole woman's song:
"It was only an 'opeless fancy,
It passed like an (a) day,
But a look an' a word an' the dreams they stirred
They 'ave stolen my 'eart awye!"
What does Julia put on in the room above Charrington's shop?
A mask
Make-up
Scent / perfume
A warm jumper
Which animal scares Winston in the secret room?
A spider
A mouse
A cockroach
A rat
Who does Julia think is dropping rocket bombs on London?
Eurasia
Eastasia
Oceania
Goldstein
What are the names of the three former Inner Party members whom Winston knows to be innocent of the crimes for which they were publicly arrested?
Jones
Syme
Aaronson
Rutherford
Complete this exclamation from Winston to Julia: "You're only a rebel from the (a) downwards".
What does O'Brien offer to lend Winston, if Winston visits O'Brien's apartment?
The Tenth Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary
A telescreen
His servant
Some real coffee
What was the last thing Winston did before his mother disappeared?
He stole his younger sister's chocolate.
He played Snakes and Ladders with her.
He hugged her.
He helped her with the housework.
What's the repeated missing word here? "'The proles are _________ beings', he said aloud. 'We are not __________.'"
(a)
What unusual privileges does O'Brien enjoy as a member of the Inner Party?
He can switch off his telescreen.
He can choose his own wife.
He can drink wine.
He has a servant.
O'Brien asks Winston what he's prepared to do for the Brotherhood. Which of these does Winston answer "yes" to?
"You are prepared to give your lives?"
"You are prepared to commit murder?"
"You are prepared to cheat to forge, to blackmail, to corrupt the minds of children, to distribute habit-forming drugs, to encourage prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases...?"
"...to throw sulphuric acid in a child's face - are you prepared to do that?"
"You are prepared, the two of you, to separate and never see one another again?"
Why does Winston have to work ninety hours in five days?
Because it is Hate Week.
To cover for seeing Julia.
Because Oceania's opponent has changed and Winston's department need to alter historical records.
Because O'Brien personally asks him to, and Winston worships him.
What are the three missing words in this line from Goldstein's book: "Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the ________, the __________ and the _______"?
(a)
At the end of Book 2, who gets punched in the solar plexus?
Winston
Julia
Charrington
An agent of the Thought Police
Who does Winston keep seeing through the window of the secret room?
Charrington
Parsons
Big Brother
The red-armed prole woman
What is in Winston's prison cell in the Ministry of Love (described at the beginning of Book Three)?
A bed.
A bench along the wall.
Walls of glittering white porcelain.
Four telescreens.
A lavatory pan with no wooden seat.
Winston meets a very drunk and angry women in the police station. What does she do?
Vomits "copiously".
Swears at the guards.
Says that she might be Winston's mother because they have the same surname.
Uses the toilet "loudly and abundantly".
Who reports Parsons to the Thought Police before he's sent to the Ministry of Love?
His wife
O'Brien
Winston
His seven-year-old daughter
Complete this quotations from the "skull-faced man" who's imprisoned with Winston in the Ministry of Love: "'I’ve got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn’t six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I’ll stand by and watch it. But not _________ ______!’
(a)
There is one repeated word missing from the gaps in this quotation. What is it? (You only need to type the word once in the answer box.)
"Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of _______. Of _______ you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical _______. In the face of _______ there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm."
(a)
When he is being tortured in the Ministry of Love, which of these does Winston confess to?
He has murdered his wife and assassinated Party members.
He has been spying for Eastasia.
He has been drinking Big Brother's personal supplies of Victory Gin.
He is in personal contact with Goldstein.
Complete this party slogan: "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the (a) ."
To disprove Winston's idea about the "freedom to say that two plus two makes four", O'Brien tortures Winston while asking him to count how many fingers O'Brien is holding up. How many fingers does he actually hold up?
Three
Four
Five
None
What's the missing word in this quotation from O'Brien?
"'Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with (a) .'"
Who wrote "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" (the seditious book Winston is secretly handed about Oceania)?
Goldstein
O'Brien and a team of Party members
The Brotherhood
Syme, Ampleforth and Rutherford
Finish this quotation from O'Brien about why the Party maintains power: "Power is not a means, it is an (a) ."
What's the missing word from this famous O'Brien quotation?
"'If you want a picture of the (a) , imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.’"
Orwell's first title for this novel was "The Last Man in Europe". Using the quotation "‘If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man", explain why you think Orwell initially chose that title.
What is in Room 101?
"The (a) thing in the world."
How does Winston escape the rats in Room 101?
He screams that he'll do anything.
He shouts that he loves Big Brother.
He yells that they should do it to Julia instead.
He stays completely silent and watches O'Brien.
When Winston and Julia meet at the end of the book, what are the first three words they each say to each other?
(a)
Complete the last words of the book: "But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He ________ _________ ________."
(a)
Context Question! Which of these things did Stalin do as leader of Russia in the 1920s and 30s?
Drove industrialisation
Developed the Russian economy
Imprisoned people in labour camps called gulags
Made millions of people starve to death because all food produced was considered state property
Orchestrated the Great Purge
Context question! In Soviet Russia, which of these groups was targeted during the Great Purge?
Intellectuals (educated people) only
Politicians only
The working classes only
Intellectuals, politicians, and generally anyone who was perceived to be a threat to Stalin's rule
The Tsars only
Context question! Orwell once wrote: "Every serious line I have written since 1936 has been directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I know it." With reference to the context, explain why Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four.
