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1984 Unit Test

Multiple Choice: 60 points total (2 points each)

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Directions:For each question, choose the best answer and fill in the corresponding bubble on the answer sheet. You will have 50 minutes to complete the test.

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1.Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516 to make society aware of the social and political corruption in England under the Tudors. Since then, what has the term “utopia” has come to represent?

A.a world where everything is bad

B.a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions

C.a world where the government is transparent and the crime rate is very low

D.a place where corruption has overrun the good intentions of the founders

2. George Orwell is a “pen name” or pseudonym adopted by the author of 1984. What is the real, birth name of the author?

A.Andrew Macintyre

B.Eric Arthur Blair

C.George O’Neill

D.Samuel Longhorn Clemons

3. Winston’s job is to rectify the original figures and information in the Times by making them agree with later ones. What Party policy does his job perpetuate?

  1. Ignorance is strength
  2. Think right
  3. Thoughtcrime
  4. Reality control

**4. What is the setting of the novel?

A.The novel is set inthe main city of Sector 2, a division of the North American Alliance.

B.The novel is set in Paris, which is the capital city of the country of Eurasia.

C.The novel is set in London, which is the main city of Airstrip One, a province of the country of Oceania.

D.The novel is set in New York City, which is the capital of New America

5. This Newspeak word represents “the essential crime that contains all others in itself.”

A.doublethink

B.facecrime

C.thoughtcrime

D.crimestop

6. In Room 101, O’Brian says to Winston:

“Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic ______that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself.”

A.communes

B.democracies

C.utopias

D.societies

7. George Orwell worked in Spain as a newspaper reporter during the Spanish Civil War, served as a sergeant in the Home Guard in England during WWII, and worked as a broadcast journalist for the British Broadcasting Company (BBC). These experiences most likely influenced him to write:

A.1984, a manifesto upholding the importance of warfare

B.1984, a novel about a social outcast named Winston Smith

C.1984, a political satire about current government leaders

D.1984, a warning against the dangers of totalitarian society

**8. Which of the following is not a Party slogan in the novel 1984?

  1. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
  2. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
  3. LOVE IS HATE
  4. WAR IS PEACE

9. Benito Mussolini described this specific form of government as “all within the state, none outside the state, none against the state.”

  1. Totalitarianism
  2. Socialism
  3. Democracy
  4. Communism

10. “Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!” What major theme of the novel does this quote represent?

A.appearance versus reality

B.freedom versus slavery

C.loyalty versus betrayal

D.utopia versus dystopia

11. “The party claimed, of course, to have liberated the proles from bondage. Before the revolution they had been hideously oppressed by the capitalists...But simultaneously, true to the principles of ______, the Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection.”

A.Big Brother

B.Doublethink

C.The Ministry of Truth

D.“The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism”

12. “The fabulous statistics continued to pour out of the telescreen. As compared with last year there was more food, more clothes, more furniture, more cooking pots, more fuel, more ships, more helecopters, more books, more babies—more of everything except disease, crime, and insanity.”

This Party announcement is an example of______.

  1. duckspeak
  2. INGSOC
  3. newspeak
  4. reality control

13. The name “Big Brother” most closely relates to what tactic used by historical figures such as Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin?

A.cult of personality

B.propaganda

C.pseudonyms

D.secret police

**14. What crime does the main character commit when he opens the diary and writes “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” in it?

  1. writecrime
  2. pencrime
  3. bookcrime
  4. thoughtcrime

15. Showing an expression of surprise or disbelief when a war victory is announced would be an example of ______.

A.facecrime

B.doublethink

C.betrayal

D.duckspeak

16. The following passage is the opening passage from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s short story “Harrison Bergeron.”

“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.”

What element of dystopian literature does this passage best represent?

A.communication is poor, artificial, stilted, and limits the range of thought

B.equality is achieved by numerous laws and unceasing vigilance.

C.power rests in a corrupt dictator sometimes called the “Handicapper General.”

D.Individuals are of little, if any consequence, the desire being for uniformity within the society.

**17. What does Winston write in his diary?

  1. Be true to yourself and stand up for what you believe. Do not let anyone put you down.
  2. Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
  3. Do the best you can. Trust that tomorrow will be better.
  4. Even if this is discovered, I am still glad I wrote it.

**18. What bothers Winston more than the thought that he might be a lunatic?

  1. The thought that he might be wrong.
  2. The thought that there are many more lunatics like him.
  3. The thought that he might be right after all.
  4. The thought that he is the only lunatic left alive.

19. Who is “the principle traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity”?

  1. Big Brother
  2. Emmanuel Goldstein
  3. O’Brian
  4. Winston Smith

**20. Which of the following gives the organization of the Party in the correct order, from top to bottom?

  1. theproles, the Outer Party, Big Brother, the Inner Party
  2. Big Brother, the Inner Party, the Outer Party, the proles
  3. Big Brother, the Inner Party, the proles, the Outer Party
  4. the Outer Party, the proles, the Inner Party, Big Brother

21. “The preparations for Hate Week were in full swing, and the staffs of all the Ministries were working overtime. Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, photographs faked.”

This passage represents the Party’s use of ______.

A.campaigning

B.forced labor

C.propaganda

D.reality control

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**22. During their meeting, O’Brien says Winston will receive ______.

  1. a lifetime supply of good wine
  2. acopy of Goldstein’s book
  3. a new identity
  4. another message in five days

23. According to “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism” what is the aim of modern warfare?

  1. To use up the products of human labor
  2. To raise the standard of living
  3. To remain in control of the other two superpowers
  4. To continually keep the population low

**24. What is the final, most essential command of the Party?

  1. The Party tells people to stop caring about anyone.
  2. The Party tells people to kill their enemies.
  3. The Party tells people to vote to keep the Party in office forever.
  4. The Party tells people to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears

**25. Winston tells Julia the real betrayal will be if they can be made to ______.

A.steal from the Party

B.tell lies about O’Brien

C.get others to join the Brotherhood

D.stop loving each other

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**26. What does Winston discover about Mr. Charrington?

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  1. He and O’Brien are brothers.
  2. He is a member of the Thought Police.
  3. He is planning to organize the proles for an uprising.
  4. He has been murdered

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**27. What does Winston find out about The Book?

  1. O’Brien wrote part of The Book.
  2. The Book does not exist
  3. The Book has the only accurate record of history.
  4. All copies of The Book have been destroyed.

28. What is in Room 101?

  1. An electric chair
  2. Complete darkness
  3. Spiders
  4. Whatever the prisoner fears most

29. “A new poster had suddenly appeared all over London. It had no caption, and represented simply the monstrous figure of a Eurasian soldier, three or four meters high, striding forward with expressionless Mongolian face and enormous boots, a submachine gun pointed from his hip.”

This passage from 1984 most nearly corresponds with:

  1. Campaign adds during presidential elections
  2. World War II propaganda depicting the Japanese as dark, treacherous murderers
  3. The propaganda posters of Mao Zedong used to manipulate public opinion
  4. Recruiting posters used by the U.S. military depicting brave American soldiers

**30. Winston and Julia meet after they have been released. How do they react to each other?

A.They still love each other.

B.They do not feel the same anymore.

C.They completely ignore each other.

D.They get married.

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**These items were borrowedwith some slight changes from one of my cooperating teacher’s tests and I think she copied these questions from enotes.com

1984 Unit Test

Essay: 40 Points

“You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,” he said almost sadly. “Even when you write it you’re still thinking in Oldspeak. I’ve read some of those pieces that you write in the Times* occasionally. They’re good enough, but they’re translations. In your heart you’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words.”

*theTimes is the name of the Newspaper in George Orwell’s 1984

In a well-written essay, analyze and discuss ALL of the following:

  • the official language of Oceana
  • the importance of language to maintaining Party control
  • the effects of the shift in language and thinking as mentioned above
  • the ways that this shift affects Winston Smith

Provide evidence from text to support your analysis.

Write your essay on the college ruled notebook paper provided.

Multiple-Choice Answers

  1. B
  2. B
  3. D
  4. C
  5. C
  6. C
  7. D
  8. C
  9. A
  10. C
  11. B
  12. D
  13. A
  14. D
  15. A
  16. D
  17. B
  18. D
  19. B
  20. B
  21. C
  22. B
  23. A
  24. D
  25. D
  26. B
  27. A
  28. D
  29. B
  30. B

Possible Essay Answers

Components of Answer:

  • Newspeak is the official language of the Party in George Orwell’s novel 1984.
  • Language is important to freedom.
  • Newspeak is important to Party control because it limits the scope of language and hence the ability of the citizens of Oceana to express themselves.
  • Ultimately the limited language will limit the scope of human thought
  • “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we’re not far from that point. But the process will be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.” (52)
  • The party limits language by:
  • Ridding the party of synonyms and antonyms—The basic idea behind Newspeak is to remove all shades of meaning from language, leaving simple dichotomies (pleasure and pain) which reinforce the total dominance of the Party. Similarly, Newspeak root words served as both nouns and verbs, which allowed further reduction in the total number of words.
  • Words with negative meanings were removed as redundant, so “bad” becomes “ungood”
  • “By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like “freedom is slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
  • As the novel progresses, Winston Smith (who works...) has a growing awareness of how the Party manipulates the People by manipulating language. As he tries to remember what life was like before the Revolution, his decreasing ability to remember the past disturbs him.
  • Winston feels that the Proles are the only hope for language and thought

Essay might possibly include: Parallels to the future of the English language—in the English language today we spell and speak in a limited way via. text messages and e-mails.

Category / Excellent (20-18) / Satisfactory (17-15) / Weak (14-12) / Unacceptable (12-10)
Quality of Ideas
Points: ______/ Consistently able to communicate important concepts/ ideas in depth; the ideas are sound and insightful; the ideas are developed in great detail, elaboration of concepts is rich. / Generally communicates important concepts/ ideas; much thinking is sound and insightful; the ideas are developed in some detail, some elaboration of concepts is present / Occasionally able to communicate important ideas; ideas are sound at points and exhibit some insight; the ideas are not developed in any detail, little or no elaboration of concepts is present. / Ideas appear irrelevant to the prompt or are not communicated clearly; ideas lack soundness or insight; the ideas are not developed in any detail, little or no elaboration of concepts is present
Expression of Ideas
Points: ______/ Consistently is clear and elaborate in communicating ideas in a style acceptable to a literate audience; the logic of the phrasing is consistently rich and enlivening. / Communicates to audiences other than the self, but not always in a stylistic and sophisticated manner; the logic and phrasing is most often sound and the idea communicated is generally understood; word choice is at times rich and enlivening. / Occasionally conveys ideas to audiences other than the self; the logic of the phrasing is often questionable and the idea communicated somewhat uncertain; word choice is rarely rich or enlivening. / Cannot communicate ideas; the logic of phrasing is inconsistent and the idea communicated unclear, often awkward or flat word choice.
Organization of Ideas
Points: ______/ Addresses all elements of the prompt. Fully develops and structures the main idea implicitly or explicitly; a strong sense of movement or focus is found in writing; structuring elements unify the entire piece of writing; segmental markers are effectively used throughout writing. / Addresses most elements of the prompt. Develops the main idea in an incomplete or loosely structured fashion; a general sense of movement or focus is found in the writing; some structuring elements are present; a few segmental markers are evident / Addresses some elements of the prompt. Makes the main idea discernable but it is wholly unstructured; some sense of movement or focus is found in the writing; few or no structuring features are present; no segmental markers are evident. / Does not address the prompt. Neither states nor implies a point; little or no movement or focus is found in the writing; no structuring features are present; no segmental markers are evident
Maturity of syntax and vocabulary
Points: ______/ Uses a variety of sentence patterns and sentence structures. Full control of basic words and more sophisticated language. / Often uses complex sentence structures; frequently uses a variety of sentence patterns. Control of basic words and more sophisticated language; occasional misuse of the latter. / Typically uses simple sentence structure although there is some use of complex sentence structure with embedded phrases and clauses; has some variety in sentence patterns. Control of basic words; frequent misuse of sophisticated language. / Uses only simple sentence structure; has no variety in the sentence patterns. Constant misuse of basic words.
Spelling, Punctuation,
and Usage
Points: ______/ Rarely misspells even difficult words. Always uses all forms of punctuation correctly (1 mistake allowed). All usage is conventional. / Common words spelled correctly; occasionally misspells more difficult words. Always uses end punctuation correctly; generally uses internal punctuation correctly. Occasional errors in less important usage areas. / Common words spelled correctly; frequently misspells more difficult words. Uses end punctuation correctly; rarely uses internal punctuation correctly. Control of basic usage with frequent problems in less important usage areas such as pronoun antecedents and misplaced modifiers. / Frequently misspells simple common words. Fails to use punctuation correctly. Consistently makes basic usage errors such as: lack of subject-verb agreement, use of double negatives, and use of improper verb forms.

Name:______

TOTAL:______