Nineteen Eighty-Four Characters Quiz

Nineteen Eighty-Four Characters questions

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1. During the Two Minutes Hate, what does Winston believe passes between him and O'Brien?
   A signal to meet after work · A warning that he is suspected · A glance of shared understanding · An accusation he cannot answer
2. Why is Winston certain, over lunch, that Syme will one day be vaporized?
   He has quarrelled with the Inner Party · He has been overheard praising Goldstein · He keeps a forbidden diary as well · He sees too clearly and says so
3. What does Winston get from the very old man he buys beer for in the prole pub?
   A clear account of the old days · Scraps of memory with no pattern · Directions to a forbidden market · A warning about the Thought Police
4. In the clearing in the country, how does Julia explain the sash of the Junior Anti-Sex League that she wears?
   She believes in its purpose · It is the best possible disguise · It earns her travel permits · She was ordered to put it on
5. How does Winston learn that Syme has been vaporized?
   The telescreen announces his arrest · Parsons mentions it in the canteen · His name is off a committee list · His cubicle is cleared overnight
6. Winston wakes in the rented room in tears. What memory of his mother and sister has he been dreaming of?
   Denouncing them to a warden · Snatching their chocolate and fleeing · Watching them taken by patrols · Leaving them in a Tube shelter
7. In the oath O'Brien puts to the two of them, what is the one demand Julia refuses?
   To take poison when ordered · To part and never meet again · To harm a child for the cause · To betray Winston if caught
8. How does Parsons speak about his own arrest in the cell?
   With gratitude towards his daughter · With bafflement at the charge · With open contempt for the Party · With fury at whoever informed
9. Why does O'Brien make Winston strip and look at himself in a mirror?
   To prove the cell has no windows · To show him what he has become · To let him see Julia's fate too · To make him confess once more
10. What do Winston and Julia admit to each other when they meet by chance in the park?
    Each betrayed the other under torture · Each was shown the other's file · Each was released on the same day · Each still means to resist the Party
11. Who is Mr Charrington revealed to be?
    An agent of the Thought Police · A member of the Brotherhood · An Inner Party man in hiding · A prole informer paid by patrols
12. What is Julia's attitude to organised rebellion against the Party?
    She has no interest in it · She wants to lead a cell · She thinks it must come soon · She is certain it exists

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Original questions written for Pagine. This book is in copyright, so questions paraphrase rather than quote it.