Nineteen Eighty-Four Part 3, Chapters 1-2 Quiz (Part Three, Chapters 1-2)

Nineteen Eighty-Four Part 3, Chapters 1-2 questions

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1. Who denounced Parsons to the Thought Police?
   His wife, Mrs Parsons · A neighbour in his block · A colleague at the Ministry · His own small daughter
2. 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
3. What was Ampleforth the poet arrested for?
   Reciting an old London rhyme · Leaving a word for God in a line · Hiding a pre-war book of verse · Refusing to shorten a poem
4. What does Winston understand when O'Brien walks into his cell?
   O'Brien has been arrested as well · O'Brien is being forced to act · O'Brien had served the Party throughout · O'Brien has come to get him out
5. Strapped to the apparatus, Winston is shown four fingers. What does O'Brien demand of him?
   That he count them aloud · That he name the number first · That he deny seeing any · That he see five of them

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