1984 Part 2 Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. During Hate Week, the Party suddenly announces that Oceania is at war with Eastasia rather than Eurasia. What happens next?
The public refuses to continue until the old posters are removed
Hate Week is canceled until new intelligence can be verified
The speaker admits that the alliance has just changed
The crowd and Party workers immediately treat Eastasia as the eternal enemy
2. What is Julia’s job at the Ministry of Truth?
Rewriting old newspaper reports in the Records Department
Teaching new vocabulary in the Research Department
Preparing Hate Week speeches for the Fiction Department
Maintaining novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department
3. Julia breaks Party rules, arranges secret meetings, and pursues personal pleasure, but shows little interest in broad political theory. What does this pattern reveal about her rebellion?
It is designed to help her rise within the Inner Party
It is practical and personal rather than primarily ideological
It depends on her detailed study of Goldstein’s program
It is mainly an attempt to expose Winston as a thought-criminal
4. Why does Winston rent the room above Mr. Charrington’s shop despite the danger?
He needs somewhere to hide forged Ministry records
It appears to offer a private place where he and Julia can meet
He plans to use it for secret meetings with Parsons
It gives him access to a prohibited shortwave radio
5. What pretext does O’Brien use when he gives Winston his home address?
He wants Winston to repair a malfunctioning speakwrite
He needs help correcting a Times article
He offers to show Winston the latest Newspeak dictionary
He invites Winston to help organize Hate Week
6. At the moment the hidden surveillance in the rented room is revealed, what completes the old rhyme about St. Clement’s?
A church bell outside rings the missing line
Julia finds the final verse inside the paperweight
A concealed voice says, “Here comes a chopper to chop off your head”
Mr. Charrington sings about oranges and lemons from downstairs
7. In Goldstein’s account of the recurring High, Middle, and Low social groups, which group typically seeks to replace the High?
The Low
The politically neutral
The Middle
The foreign enemy
8. According to the book attributed to Goldstein, why does perpetual war help preserve the existing social order?
It allows one superstate to conquer the entire world
It consumes surplus production and helps maintain hierarchy
It forces the three superstates to exchange political systems
It gives the proles enough wealth to challenge the Party
9. The familiar-looking Mr. Charrington appears without his former disguise after Winston and Julia are arrested. What does Winston realize?
Charrington is an officer of the Thought Police
Charrington is Goldstein living under an assumed identity
Charrington is O’Brien’s household servant
Charrington is a prole who has been forced to inform that night
10. Winston notices that Syme has disappeared and that his name has been removed from a committee list. What does Winston infer?
Syme has been vaporized and officially erased
Syme has been transferred to another ministry
Syme has joined the Brotherhood underground
Syme has been promoted to work with O’Brien
11. When O’Brien asks whether they are prepared to separate and never see each other again, how do Winston and Julia respond?
They both ultimately refuse
They agree without hesitation
Winston agrees, but Julia refuses
Julia agrees, but Winston refuses
12. What message does Julia secretly pass to Winston near the beginning of Part 2?
Meet me after the Two Minutes Hate
We are already dead
O’Brien can be trusted
I love you
13. Winston imagines the glass paperweight as a tiny world containing himself and Julia. What makes it especially appropriate as a symbol of their relationship?
It conceals written instructions from the Brotherhood
It was issued by the Party to reward loyal couples
Its coral forms a map of the three superstates
It is beautiful and seemingly enclosed, but also fragile
14. When Winston and Julia visit O’Brien’s apartment, what action initially makes them believe he may truly oppose the Party?
He removes his Inner Party uniform
He displays an original photograph from before the Revolution
He switches off the telescreen
He openly criticizes Big Brother in front of his neighbors
15. Workers rapidly replace banners and records after the enemy changes during Hate Week. Which Party principle does their response best demonstrate?
The Party’s current claim must be accepted as if it had always been true
Newspeak prevents officials from understanding the announcement
The proles naturally preserve accurate history
Inner Party members are exempt from changing their memories
16. Julia’s directions take Winston away from London to a place with bluebells and no telescreens nearby. What kind of place is it?
An abandoned railway station
A secluded woodland clearing
A church belfry overlooking a village
A disused quarry beside a military road