1984

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-book review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. How is Julia’s attitude toward the Party different from Winston’s?

A) She does not believe Big Brother exists.

B) She does not want to rebel against Party rules.

C) She does not philosophically oppose Party rule.

D) She does not mind being under surveillance.

2. Why does Winston believe the proles are the only hope for change?

A) They are not motivated to comply with the Party.

B) Their lives are less controlled by the Party.

C) They have access to help from outside Oceania.

D) Their work makes them physically stronger.

3. What is the primary function of the Two Minutes Hate and Hate Week?

A) to inspire citizens to report one another’s thought crimes

B) to create compliance through fear of Big Brother’s power

C) to unite citizens against a common enemy

D) to cause physical and mental exhaustion

4. What technique is used in the naming of the book’s government ministries?

A) irony

B) hyperbole

C) understatement

D) oxymoron

5. Which location best represents Winston’s dream of escaping Party control?

A) O’Brien’s apartment

B) Julia’s apartment

C) Winston’s office

D) the apartment above Charrington’s shop

6. What is the most common punishment for breaking Party rules?

A) re-education

B) imprisonment

C) exile

D) death

7. What do Winston’s first impressions of Julia and O’Brien have in common?

A) They are both negative.

B) They are both erroneous.

C) They are both positive.

D) They are both accurate.

8. By the end of the novel, which of the following characters has been revealed to be a member of the Thought Police?

A) Charrington

B) Syme

C) Julia

D) Katherine

9. What is the significance of the scar on Julia’s forehead at the end of the novel?

A) It highlights uneven rule enforcement by the Party.

B) It is a reminder of her betrayal of Winston.

C) It hints at the torture she has suffered.

D) It shows Winston how little he knows about her.

10. What does the encounter with the rat in the apartment above Charrington’s shop foreshadow?

A) the ability of the Party to alter a person’s thoughts and feelings

B) the secret surveillance and eventual torture of Winston

C) the eventual discovery of Winston’s secret journal

D) the nonsensical swapping of enemies and allies during Hate Week

11. Which of the following best states what the red-armed prole woman symbolizes?

A) escape

B) oppression

C) hope

D) the past

12. Which of the following is the least reasonable interpretation of the significance of the shattering of the paperweight?

A) Winton’s sense of security in the apartment has also been shattered.

B) Winston’s connection with a time before Oceania has also been shattered

C) Winston’s connection with Julia has also been shattered.

D) Winston’s confidence in his own judgments has also been shattered.

13. Which of the following aspects of life in Oceania contributes most to the novel’s atmosphere of uncertainty?

A) surveillance

B) the Two Minutes Hate

C) mandatory daily exercise

D) Newspeak

14. Which tool would the Party most likely suggest Winston use to deal with his thoughts about rations and the change of enemies during Hate Week?

A) memory hole

B) doublethink

C) Newspeak

D) Thinkpol

15. What Party purposes does Emmanuel Goldstein serve?

A) He is an enemy and scapegoat.

B) He distributes Party propaganda.

C) His execution is a warning to other thought criminals.

D) He creates division between the classes.

Long-Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. What is ironic about Julia’s attitude toward sex?

2. How are children shaped into good Party members?

3. What do Winston’s physical ailments convey about the atmosphere in which he lives?