SparkNotes: 1984: Quiz

1. How old is Julia?

(A) 26

(B) 30

(C) 32

(D) 35

2. Winston commits thoughtcrime by writing which of the following in his diary?

(A) I HATE BIG BROTHER

(B) DOWN WITH THE PARTY

(C) DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER

(D) DEATH TO BIG BROTHER

3. What piece of evidence of the Party’s dishonesty does Winston remember having coming across several years earlier?

(A) A diary containing O’Brien’s secret confession that Big Brother does not exist

(B) A videotape from a telescreen showing Inner Party members burning historical documents

(C) A tape-recorded conversation of Emmanuel Goldstein admitting that he is a Party operative, not a Party enemy

(D) A photograph proving that certain individuals were out of the country when they were allegedly committing a crime

4. What organization urges children to turn their parents over to the authorities?

(A) The Party Youth

(B) The Junior Spies

(C) The Outer Party

(D) The Committee of Oceanian Patriotism

5. The psychological principle that allows an individual to believe contradictory ideas at the same time is called what?

(A) Doublemind

(B) Thoughtcrime

(C) Doublethink

(D) Doublespeak

6. Who really wrote the manifesto that O’Brien gives to Winston?

(A) Emmanuel Goldstein

(B) Big Brother

(C) Ayn Rand

(D) O’Brien

7. What does O’Brien use to torture Winston in Room 101?

(A) A cage full of rats

(B) A laser heat machine

(C) A machine that causes full-body physical pain

(D) Hallucinogenic drugs

8. Where do Winston and Julia make love for the first time?

(A) The room above the antiques shop

(B) The forest

(C) Trafalgar Square

(D) The beach

9. What is the last line of the St. Clement’s Church song?

(A) Here comes the Party, dear Winston, you’re dead!

(B) Here comes Big Brother to step on your shoe!

(C) Until the mousetrap goes snap! on your head!

(D) Here comes a chopper to chop off your head!

10. What does Winston trace in the dust on the table at the end of the novel?

(A) 2 + 2 = 5

(B) I love Big Brother

(C) I love Julia

(D) O’Brien

11. How many times does Julia claim to have had sex with Party members?

(A) 2

(B) 10

(C) Scores

(D) Hundreds

12. Which of the following characters is secretly a member of the Thought Police?

(A) Winston

(B) Mr. Charrington

(C) Syme

(D) Julia

13. What happens to the glass paperweight?

(A) It is confiscated by the Thought Police

(B) Julia hides it under the mattress

(C) O’Brien flings it out the window

(D) It is shattered on the floor

14. Where is the telescreen hidden in the room above Mr. Charrington’s shop?

(A) Behind the picture of St. Clement’s

(B) Under the bed

(C) Behind the light fixture

(D) Behind the poster of Big Brother

15. What is the name for the mass rally held every day?

(A) The Two Minutes Rage

(B) The Ten Minutes Hate

(C) The Two Minutes Hate

(D) The Daily Rage

16. Besides Oceania, what are the two countries that make up the rest of the Earth?

(A) Eurasia and Australasia

(B) Eurasia and Eastasia

(C) Eastasia and Africasia

(D) Australasia and Americom

17. What project is Syme working on at the beginning of the novel?

(A) A pamphlet on Emmanuel Goldstein

(B) A new slogan for the party

(C) A revision of a children’s history book

(D) A Newspeak dictionary

18. Who turns Parsons in to the Thought Police?

(A) His children

(B) Julia

(C) His wife

(D) O’Brien

19. What does O’Brien say when Winston asks if he has been captured?

(A) “I would die before I would let that happen.”

(B) “They got me a long time ago.”

(C) “I’m afraid so.”

(D) “I am one of them.”

20. To what organization does Julia belong?

(A) The Junior Spies

(B) The Two Minutes Hate Committee

(C) The Inner Party

(D) The Junior Anti-Sex League

21. Winston has a memory of running away from his mother and sister and stealing what from them?

(A) Chocolate

(B) Clothing

(C) Money

(D) A diary

22. The setting for Winston’s fantasy about Julia running toward him naked is

(A) Eastasia

(B) The place where there is no darkness

(C) The Golden Country

(D) Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe

23. In what nation did Orwell work for the British Imperial Police?

(A) Bangladesh

(B) Zanzibar

(C) Burma

(D) India

24. In what nation was Orwell born?

(A) India

(B) Bangladesh

(C) Zanzibar

(D) Burma

25. What was George Orwell’s real name?

(A) Eric Snow

(B) Terrence Buskington

(C) Timothy Sneed

(D) Eric Blair