ERWC

1984

Part Two, Chapters 2-4

(Chapter Two)

1. Over what distance does one need a passport?

2. What is Winston shock to find out that Julia already knew?

3. What does Winston tell Julia he thought of her before?

4. What does Julia pull out of her pocket?

5. What does Julia say is the only way to stay safe?

6. What does Julia say she saw in Winston?

7. Winston says the place is just like what other place?

8. When Winston finds out that Julia has done this with scores of other men, what is Winston’s reaction?

9. Winston is not really interested in love. What is he interested in and why?

10. Why could no emotion be pure in Oceania in 1984?

11. Winston views his and Julia’s act as a ______act.

(Chapter Three)

1. When Julia awoke, how did her demeanor change?

2. Where are Julia and Winston to meet four days hence?

3. What will be the sign that the coast is clear?

4. Where does Julia have to be at 19:30 and how is this ironic?

5. What does Julia call the kind of talking where they have to keep stopping and starting because they are

worried about being detected?

6. What did Julia talk Winston into volunteering to do?

7. Whom does the Party pick to work in Pornosec and why?

8. Describe Julia’s first love affair.

9. What Newspeak word does Winston use to describe his wife Katherine?

10. By repressing sex, the party is able to redirect that energy into what aspects of society?

11. How did the Party attack parenthood?

12. Winston thinks to himself that Katherine probably would have called the Thought Police on him if

weren’t for what?

13. What did Winston almost do one time? (Now he regrets not having done it.)

(Chapter Four)

1. At the beginning of the chapter, where is Winston?

2. Who wrote the words of the songs that the Proles sing?

3. Why had working hours been increased?

4. What thought popped into Winston’s head while he waited for Julia?

5. What gifts does Julia bring, and where did she get them?

6. When Winston saw the make-up and smelled the perfume, what was he reminded of?

7. What did one never see now except in the homes of the Proles?

8. What does Julia throw her shoe at?

9. What is Winston’s reaction to this?

10. When Winston starts to sing, what does Julia do that surprises him?

11. What has Julia never seen and wonders what it looks like?

12. What does Julia say that she will clean some day?