Nineteen Eighty-Four Plot recall Quiz

Nineteen Eighty-Four Plot recall questions

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1. Each of the four Ministries is named for the opposite of what it does. Which one conducts the war?
   The Ministry of Peace · The Ministry of Love · The Ministry of Truth · The Ministry of Plenty
2. What interrupts Winston's train of thought during the morning exercises in front of the telescreen?
   The instructress calls him out by name · Mrs Parsons knocks at his front door · The telescreen announces a ration cut · A rocket bomb lands somewhere near
3. 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
4. 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
5. What does Winston buy from Mr Charrington's shop on this visit?
   A notebook of creamy paper · A steel engraving of a church · A glass paperweight holding coral · A twelve-hour clock in a case
6. How does the dark-haired girl first make contact with Winston?
   She leaves a message in his cubicle · She follows him into the prole quarter · She speaks to him in the lunch queue · She slips him a note after a fall
7. What does Julia believe about the rocket bombs falling on London?
   They are only telescreen noise · Goldstein's followers plant them · Eurasia launches them from the sea · Oceania's own government fires them
8. 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
9. On the sixth day of Hate Week, what does the crowd learn in the middle of a speech?
   The war has at last been won · Big Brother will appear in person · Oceania's enemy has changed · Goldstein has been captured
10. How does Goldstein's book reach Winston?
    A swapped briefcase in a crowd · Handed over by O'Brien's servant · A parcel left in his cubicle · Posted to him under a false name
11. 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
12. 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
13. What is waiting for Winston in Room 101?
    A record of his confession · A cage of rats and a mask · A mirror and bright lights · A dial that controls pain
14. What does the Appendix give as the purpose of Newspeak?
    To simplify the work of clerks · To replace writing with speech · To make unorthodox thought impossible · To unify the three superstates
15. Which Ministry handles news, entertainment, education and the fine arts?
    The Ministry of Love · The Ministry of Plenty · The Ministry of Peace · The Ministry of Truth

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