1984
Study Guide Answers
Part 1
Chapter 1
1. When does the novel begin?
April 4, 1984
2. Where does the novel begin?
London, Airstrip One
3. Cite the caption on the posters in Winston’s building.
Big Brother is Watching You
4. What is Newspeak?
Official language of Oceania
5. What does a telescreen do?
2-way broadcast—all-seeing and hearing
6. What are the Party’s three slogans?
War is Peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is Strength
7. Name the four Ministries of the government.
Ministry of Love, Peace, Truth, Plenty
8. What is the purpose of the Two Minutes Hate?
Unify people against enemy; keep focus on war effort
9. What is thoughtcrime?
Thinking something unorthodix
10. What is the penalty for thoughtcrime?
Death—vaporized
Chapter 2
1. What form of address has replaced “Mrs.”?
Comrade
2. What game are the Parsons’ children playing?
Marching and playing military music on kazoo
3. Give the crime the children accuse Winston of committing.
Thought crime
4. What popular spectacle took place that afternoon?
hanging
5. What is a “child hero”?
someone who turns in/denounces their parents
6. Who speaks in Winston’s dream?
O’Brien
7. What does the speaker in the dream tell Winston?
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness
8. What is the bad news delivered via the telescreen?
9. Winston addresses his diary to whom or to what?
future
Chapter 3
1. How old was Winston when his mother disappeared?
10 or 11
2. What is the only thing Winston remembers about his father?
His appearance
3. What does Winston surmise happened to his parents?
Vaporized/dead
4. Where are Winston’s mother and sister in his dream?
Bottom of a well/saloon of sinking ship
5. Who appears in Winston’s second dream?
Girl with the dark hair
6. What is Winston muttering as he awakens?
Shakespeare
7. What is Airstrip One?
England/GreatBritain
8. With whom is Oceania at war?
Eurrasia
9. What is the Party slogan?
Who controls the past, controls the future, who controls the present controls the past
10. What is Ingsoc?
English Socialism
Chapters 4, 5
1. What is the official phrase for altering records?
rectify
2. What is the primary job of the Ministry of Truth?
propaganda
3. What is “Pornosec”?
pornography unit of Ministry of Truth
4. What is Winston’s greatest pleasure in life?
work
5. Who is Comrade Ogilvy?
Fictitious war hero
6. What is Syme’s current project at the Records Department?
11th edition of Newspeak dictionary
7. According to Syme, what is the whole aim of Newspeak?
Destroy words
8. What does Syme predict will have occurred by 2050?
Have no eliminated words
9. Tell why Winston believes Syme will disappear one day.
Too smart
Chapters 6, 7
1. What does Winston believe is the most deadly danger of all?
Talking in sleep
2. What is the unforgivable crime?
Promiscuity between party members
3. What is the only recognized purpose of marriage?
Produce children for party
4. Why did Winston call Katharine the “human soundtrack”?
always repeated party slogans
5. Why does Winston believe a real love affair would be almost unthinkable?
Women of the party all alike
6. What percent of Oceania’s population is comprised of proles?
85%
7. What does Winston copy into his diary?
Children’s history textbook
8. What is Winston’s proof that the confessions of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford were false?
Photo of them
Chapter 81. Instead of spending a night at the Community Center, where does Winston go?
Walk around in Prole neighborhood
2. What does the Newspeak term “ownlife” imply?
individuaalism
3. After the bombing, what does Winston see lying in the street?
Human hand
4. What is the one public event to which the proles pay attention?
lottery
5. What does Winston learn from the old man in the bar?
Not much
6. What does Winston buy at Charrington’s shop?
Glass paperweight
7. What is different about the room above Charrington’s shop?
No telescreen
8. Why does Winston plan to return to the shop?
Look around and buy more items
Part 2 Study guide
Chapter 1
1. How much time has passed since Winston spotted the girl from the Fiction Department outside the junk shop?
4 days
2. What conflicting emotions does Winston feel before helping the girl?
Pity, anger, fear, pain
3. Give the possible sources of the note.
The girl—Julia or thought police
4. Give the message on the note.
I love you
5. Tell why Winston no longer believes the girl is an enemy.
Saw her agitation when gave note
6. Where do Winston and the girl plan to meet?
Victory Square, near monumnet
7. Tell what Winston and the girl witness in the square.
Truckloads of Eurasian prisoners being transported
8. When and where will the couple meet again?
In country Sunday afternoon
Chapter 2
1. Tell why a person is no safer in the countryside than in London.
Concealed microphones and attract attention to themselves
2. What does Winston confess?
Married, varicose veins, 5 false teeth
3. What is Winston’s immediate feeling as he holds Julia in his arms?
Incredulity and pride
4. What is Winston’s idea of a love offering?
Tell her his worst feelings right away
5. What is the emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League?
Red sash
6. Where did Julia obtain the chocolate?
Black market
7. What has attracted Julia to Winston?
Something in his face told he didn’t believe in party ideals
8. Why is Winston shocked at the coarseness of Julia’s language?
Forbidden for party members to swear
9. What is Julia’s feeling about her many other lovers?
“swine”
Chapter 3
1. Tell why Winston does not need to know Julia’s surname or address.
No need Never will meet indoors or have written communication
2. What does Julia mean by “talking in installments”?
intermittent conversation
3. How does Julia spend much of her free time?
Volunteers for Junior Anti-Sex League
4. What does Julia do at the Fiction Department?
Novel writing machines
5. What special job was Julia selected for at work?
pornosec
6. What is Julia’s only interest in Party doctrine?
When it touched her own life
7. Give Julia’s opinion of revolt against the Party.
Stupid—bound to fail
8. What is Julia’s reaction when Winston tells her the details of his loveless marriage?
indifferent
Chapter 4
1. What does Winston’s heart keep saying about the affair?
It’s folly
2. What does Winston see and hear under the window?
Prole woman singing
3. What is Winston thinking of as he awaits Julia?
His death
4. What has Julia brought?
Sugar, bread, jam, real coffee, tea
5. What does Winston see when he faces Julia?
Prole woman hanging laundry/ Julia wearing make-up
6. Why does Julia throw a shoe into the corner?
rat
7. What is Winston’s reaction when Julia describes the rat?
Makes him sick to stomach
8. What is Winston’s opinion of the paperweight?
Message from past
9. According to Winston, who might know the missing line to the nursery rhyme?
Charrington
.Chapter 5
1. Who vanishes?
Syme
2. How is Winston preparing for Hate Week at work?
Working long hours altering past articles
3. Who organizes the squads of volunteers?
Parsons
4. What is pictured on the new poster appearing all over
London?
Eurasian soldier
5. What causes the proles to feel increasingly patriotic?
More civilian deaths from rocket bombs
6. How does Winston regard the room over Charrington’s shop?
paradise
7. What does Julia take for granted?
Everyone secretly hates party
8. What does Julia believe about the stories of Goldstein and the underground?
Rubbish invented by party
9. What is Julia’s impulse during the Two Minutes Hate?
Yell loudest
Chapter 6
1. Where is Winston when O’Brien approaches him?
Hall in Minitrue
2. How does O’Brien compliment Winston?
He writes beautifully
3. Why does O’Brien refer to Syme only indirectly?
vaporized
4. How does O’Brien turn Winston into his accomplice?
Thoughtcrime—nod to Syme/ pick up dictionary
5. What does O’Brien think is an ingenious development in the tenth edition of the Newspeak dictionary?
Reduction in number of verbs
6. What is O’Brien willing to lend Winston?
New edition of dictionary
7. What happens to the paper with the address?
Memory hole
8. What prevents Winston from finding out O’Brien’s address on his own?
No directories
Chapter 7
1. What do the arm gestures made by Winston’s mother in the dreams have in common with one another?
Gesture trying to protect boy from harm
2. What does Winston remember in his dream?
Last glimpse of mother
3. What does Winston believe the proles have retained, but Party members have lost?
humanity
4. How did Winston spend many of his childhood afternoons?
Trying to steal food
5. How did Winston’s mother react to her husband’s disappearance?
spiritless
6. What did Winston do with his sister’s portion of the chocolate ration?
Stole it from her
7. What did Winston find when he returned home?
Mother and sister gone
Chapter 8
1. What does Winston fear as he travels to O’Brien’s apartment?
Being found out
2. What is the only evidence that suggests O’Brien is a political conspirator?
His dream, secret imaginings, flash of eyes
3. Why can Winston not use the excuse that he had come for the dictionary?
Julia went with him
4. What privilege is reserved for Party members?
Turn off telescreen
5. To whom does the group drink a toast?
Emmanuel Goldstein “Our Leader”
6. According to O’Brien, what is the most Winston will ever know about the Brotherhood?
That it exists and he belongs to it
7. What is Winston prepared to do for the Brotherhood?
Anything except leave Julia
Chapter 9
1. With what power is Oceania now at war?
Eastasia
2. What has Winston been doing for the past six days at the Ministry of Truth?
Working for hate week
3. What is the title of Goldstein’s book?
The Book; The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
4. What are Goldstein’s three classes?
High, middle, low
5. What does Goldstein’s book claim is the primary aim of modern warfare?
Use up products without raising standard of living
6. What is the only possible basis of a hierarchical society?
Maintain status quo
7. What are the two aims of the Party?
Conquer all earth; extinguish all independent thought
8. What happens to the most gifted proles?
Eliminated by Thought Police
9. Why must the past be altered?
Keep citizens confused
Chapter 10
1. What is the only way that the secret of the love affair would be passed on?
Word of mouth; mind-to-mind
2. What occurs to Winston as he thinks of all people?
All the same
3. What does Winston conclude is Goldstein’s final message?
If there is hope, it lies with the Proles
4. According to Winston, what kind of world would the proles create?
Sanity and equality
5. What makes Winston believe that proles are immortal?
All the children
6. How does Winston think he and Julia can share in the future?
If they kept their minds alive
7. What is behind the picture on the wall?
telescreen
8. What follows the voice?
Men in boots ran into the room/beating/ Charrington reveals he is a member of Thought Police
Part 3 Study guide
Chapter 1
1. Where does Winston presume he is when he awakens?
In the Ministry of Love
2. What difference does Winston observe between Party prisoners and ordinary criminals?
Polits= silent and terrified
Ordinary=weren’t too concerned
3. Who does all the dirty jobs in the prisons?
Polits
4. Why does Winston think of O’Brien with hope?
Thinks he may bring a razor blade
5. What is the “place with no darkness”?
Prison in Ministry of Love
6. Why has Ampleforth been arrested?
Left the word “God” at the end of a line of poetry
7. Who has denounced Parsons?
His daughter
8. What crime has Parsons committed?
Thoughtcrime—said “Down with Big Brother” in sleep
9. What does the chinless man offer the skull-faced man?
A slice of bread
Chapter 2
1. What does Winston realize about his continuous beatings?
His questioners were Party intellectuals
2. What is the aim of the Party torturers?
Get you to confess—“cured”
3. What becomes Winston’s only concern?
To find out what they wanted him to confess, then confess it
4. Who is in charge of Winston’s torture?
O’Brien
5. What does O’Brien think is wrong with Winston?
Mentally deranged
6. What does O’Brien throw down the memory hole?
Picture of Aaronson, Rutherford and Jones
7. What happens whenever Winston insists that O’Brien is holding up four fingers?
He gets a bigger and bigger shock
8. What was the Party’s purpose in bringing Winston to the Ministry of Love?
“cure him” “make him sane” Reality—to prevent him from becoming a martyr
9. What does O’Brien predict will happen?
He will love Big Brother
Chapter 3
1. Give the three stages of Winston’s reintegration.
Learning, understanding, acceptance
2. What is O’Brien’s opinion of Goldstein’s book?
nonsense
3. Why does the Party seek power?
For power’s sake
4. What power is most important?
Collective power
5. Where does O’Brien believe reality exists?
Inside the skull
6. How does the Party exert its power over humans?
Making others suffer
7. What is the foundation of the Party’s world?
hatred
8. What does Winston see when O’Brien forces him to look into the mirror?
skeleton
9. What is the only degradation that has not yet happened to Winston?
Not betrayed Julia
Chapters 4, 5
1. What does Winston write on his slate?
Freedon is slavery/ 2+2=5 / God is power
2. What does Winston think of his few remaining contrary flashbacks?
He would be punished for having them
3. Define “crimestop.”
Develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself
4. What is Winston’s hallucination?
In the Golden Country
5. What is Winston’s immediate reaction after he cries out for Julia?
Felt Julia’s presence
6. How must Winston change his feelings toward Big Brother before he can be released?
He must love him/surrender to him
7. Where does Winston’s final torture occur?
Room 101
8. What is the worst thing in the world for Winston?
rats
9. What does Winston believe is the only way to save himself?
Needed to get a human body between himself and the rats
Chapter 6
1. What is Winston’s new hangout?
Chestnut Tree Cafe
2. What news is Winston awaiting?
Ministry of Peace bulleting about war
3. What is Winston’s usual routine?
Sit at café, read newspaper, drink gin/play chess
4. What does Julia’s body remind Winston of when they unexpectedly meet?
Corpse he dragged out of ruins
5. What do Winston and Julia admit to each other?
They betrayed each other
6. Why doesn’t Winston follow Julia through the streets?
Wanted to get back to the café where it was safe and warm
7. What is Winston’s latest false memory?
Himself as a boy with his mother shaking dice box and laughing
8. What is the telescreen’s announcement?
Victory!
9. Whose picture hangs in the cafe?
Big Brother
10. Whom does Winston now love?
...Big Brother