Nineteen Eighty-Four Part 1, Chapters 4-6 Quiz (Part One, Chapters 4-6)

Nineteen Eighty-Four Part 1, Chapters 4-6 questions

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1. What is Winston's daily work in the Records Department?
   Writing speeches for Big Brother · Correcting back numbers of The Times · Compiling the Newspeak dictionary · Editing novels for the proles
2. An old Order for the Day praises a man who has since been vaporized. How does Winston solve the problem?
   He credits the praise to Big Brother · He gives the praise to a living official · He invents a dead war hero instead · He deletes the whole day's issue
3. 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
4. The canteen telescreen announces that the chocolate ration has been raised to twenty grammes. Why does the announcement unsettle Winston?
   The ration was cut to that figure last week · The Ministry of Truth issued it instead · The figure is lower than any he can recall · The announcement names no earlier figure
5. Writing about his marriage to Katharine and about a prole woman he once paid, Winston comes to see the sexual act as political. Why?
   Only Inner Party members may marry · Private desire itself defies the Party · The Party forbids marriage outright · Children are taken from their parents

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