Nineteen Eighty-Four Appendix: The Principles of Newspeak Quiz
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell · 5 multiple-choice questions with answers · about 4 min
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Skills tested: Recall, Language, Theme, Inference · Difficulty: Easy, Standard, Challenge
Nineteen Eighty-Four Appendix: The Principles of Newspeak questions
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- What does the Appendix give as the purpose of Newspeak?
To simplify the work of clerks · To replace writing with speech · To make unorthodox thought impossible · To unify the three superstates
- Newspeak vocabulary is divided into three classes. Which one holds the deliberately constructed political compounds?
The D vocabulary · The C vocabulary · The A vocabulary · The B vocabulary
- What two features does the Appendix single out as the chief peculiarities of Newspeak grammar?
Interchangeable word classes and regularity · Fixed word order and a reduced alphabet · Gendered nouns and one verb conjugation · Compound tenses and formal modes of address
- The ordinary word for freedom survives in Newspeak. In what sense only?
A permission granted by the Party · The absence of something, as of pests · The leisure left after one's work · A choice between two orthodoxies
- The Appendix describes Newspeak and its rules throughout in the past tense. What do many readers take this to imply?
The account was written in secret · The language was never finished · The regime did not last · Oldspeak had already returned
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