Nineteen Eighty-Four Language & structure Quiz
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell · 6 multiple-choice questions with answers · about 5 min
Test your knowledge of Nineteen Eighty-Four with 6 language & structure questions with answers and explanations — word choice, imagery, narration and how the work is built. Ideal for revision once you have read the whole novel.
Word choice, imagery, narration and how the work is built. Drawn from the whole novel — contains spoilers.
Skills tested: Structure, Language · Difficulty: Challenge, Standard
Nineteen Eighty-Four Language & structure questions
The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.
- Julia drags a rat out from behind the skirting board and is unbothered by it. What does Winston's reaction set up?
His distrust of Julia · His deepest private terror · His contempt for the proles · His weakening health
- Where had the telescreen been hidden in the room above the shop?
Inside the mantelpiece clock · Above the bed's wooden frame · Behind the church engraving · Under the loose window sill
- 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
- Winston dreams of a sunlit landscape he calls the Golden Country before ever seeing one. Where does he meet it awake?
In the park where they last meet · In the ruined church belfry · In the room above the shop · In the clearing where he meets Julia
- The novel closes with an Appendix on Newspeak written as the history of a language that once existed. What does that framing suggest?
That the Party's rule ended · That Newspeak spread worldwide · That the proles rose in revolt · That its records were all lost
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6 language & structure questions drawn from every part of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Word choice, imagery, narration and how the work is built. It tests structure, language at challenge, standard level.
Does it contain spoilers?
Yes — it draws on the whole novel, including the ending.
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