Nineteen Eighty-Four Part 2, Chapters 4-6 Quiz (Part Two, Chapters 4-6)

Nineteen Eighty-Four Part 2, Chapters 4-6 questions

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1. Why does Winston take the risk of renting the room above Mr Charrington's shop?
   No telescreen watches the room · Charrington promises to keep silent · The prole quarter has no patrols · It opens onto an unwatched alley
2. 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
3. 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
4. When Winston explains to Julia in the room that the Party continually rewrites the past, how does she respond?
   She asks him to prove it · She refuses to believe him · She warns him to stop talking · She cannot see why it matters
5. O'Brien's pretext for handing Winston his address is a dictionary. What makes Winston read the approach as something else?
   O'Brien names the vaporized Syme · O'Brien asks about his diary · O'Brien switches off the telescreen · O'Brien mentions the Brotherhood

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