1984 Quiz – Part 2, Chapters 5-9 (first half)
Chapter Five – V (Answer any three.)
1. Tell how Syme became an unperson.
2. Describe the preparations for Hate Week.
3. Examine why the Party hangs the posters of the Eurasian soldier.
4. Explain Winston’s comment, “Dirty or clean, the room was paradise.”
5. Generalize why Winston feels a sense of “impending death” while finding sanctuary in the room.
6. Assess why Julia does not believe that widespread opposition to the government exists.
7. Contrast Julia and Winston’s reactions to questioning the Party’s teachings.
8. List two historical details that Winston questions, but Julia accepts.
9. Show what Winston means when he says, “Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
10. Analyze how Julia accepts much of the Party’s orthodoxy while rebelling against it.
Chapter Six – VI (Answer any two.)
1. What does O’Brien offer to Winston?
2. Describe how Winston is supposed to retrieve the item from O’Brien.
3. Show why going to O’Brien’s home is important to Winston.
4. Analyze how O’Brien flatters and tries to bond with Winston.
5. Generalize why Winston does not plan to immediately retrieve the item from O’Brien.
6. Evaluate Winston’s belief, “The end was contained in the beginning.”
Chapter Seven – VII (Answer any three.)
1. What rare emotional reaction does Winston display when he awakes?
2. Discuss how Winston had previously dealt with memories of separating from his mother.
3. Describe Oceania in Winston’s childhood.
4. Examine Winston’s childhood reaction to the shortage of food. Do you believe
that he was acting selfishly or appropriately toward his mother and sister?
5. Compare the forced-labor camps and Reclamation Centers of Winston’s youth to the Holocaust concentration camps of
World War II.
6. Formulate how successful the Party was at ridding Winston of his feelings. How has this changed over the course of the
novel?
7. Assess the irony in Winston’s view of the proles.
8. From Julia and Winston’s perspective, explain the difference between confession and betrayal.
9. What does Winston expect to keep to himself when he is in the Ministry of Love?
Chapter Eight – VIII (Answer any three.)
1. Contrast O’Brien’s apartment building to Winston’s.
2. What action of O’Brien’s shocks Winston and Julia?
3. Summarize the evidence that proves to Winston that O’Brien is a political conspirator.
4. Show how O’Brien makes Winston feel that he is part of a secret group without actually providing him with any concrete
information.
5. Analyze what Julia and Winston agree to do in the name of the Brotherhood. How, if at all, could Julia and Winston help their
society by performing these actions?
6. What do Winston and Julia agree not to do?
7. Evaluate to what degree Winston and Julia should trust O’Brien.
8. Tell which two comments O’Brien states, or restates from Winston, to appeal personally to him.
9. Summarize the secret information Winston shares with O’Brien.
10. Identify O’Brien’s response regarding where he and Winston will meet again, as well as Winston’s opinion of the response.
Chapter Nine – IX (Answer any two.)
1. Why does Winston have to work ninety hours in five days?
2. Summarize the crowd’s reaction when the speaker remarks that Oceania is fighting against Eastasia.
3. Show why the war continues, even though there is no chance of a decisive victory on either side.
4. Analyze the government’s ultimate reason for perpetuating the war.
5. Generalize the Party’s two key aims and the two problems that it tries to solve.