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Ask your group to work with you, then examine/ discuss the following questions. These questions are due on Nov. 25th.  I will post them, so that we all can read them and have a better understanding of the novel.

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1. Winston is afraid of

2: Julia is a member of

3: The following is not a Newspeak word:

4: "Facecrime" is

5: Winston's hostile and glaring colleague in the Records Department is named

6. The sash around Julia's waist is

7: Complete the slogan: "Who controls the past, controls the future; . . ."

8: Comrade Ogilvy is

9: Both Syme and Parsons ask Winston if he has any spare

10: Winston predicts that all of the following will be vaporized except:

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11. All of the following are (presumably) vaporized except:

(a): Syme

(b): Winston

(c): Parsons

(d): O'Brien


12: At the climax of the Two Minutes Hate, Goldstein's face turns into

13: Winston reflects that the only thing that is "cheap and plentiful" is

14: Complete the slogan: War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is

15: Early in the novel, what change affects the chocolate ration?

16: According to Syme, what is "orthodoxy"?

17: According to Winston, where does hope lie?

18: The current name of Britain is

19: What is the nickname the proles have for rocket bombs?

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20: In his diary, Winston defines freedom as:

21: Winston identifies the voice which says "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness" as belonging to whom?

22: What did Winston steal from his younger sister?

23: Mr. Charrington offers to sell Winston a print of:

24: Inside the glass paperweight is

25: Why do tears spring to Rutherford's eyes in the Chestnut Street Cafe?

26: The caption on the Big Brother posters says:

27: After a dream of seeing the girl in the Golden Country, Winston awakens with a word on his lips. What is the word?

28: Which line of the nursery rhyme does Julia add to what Winston already knows?

29: What thought does Winston have regarding chess at the end of the book?

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30: Why, according to O'Brien, are people brought to the Ministry of Love?

31: According to the Party, what two groups are free?

32: What does O'Brien use as a pretext for giving Winston his address?

33: What is Julia's work at the Ministry of Truth?

34: Winston finds that what he had hoped was a riot was in fact

35: What are the social philosophies of the three superstates?

36: Which of the following is NOT an effect of war becoming continuous?

37: According to "the book," which country will win the international war?

38: The ultimate goal of the Party is

39: What, says O'Brien, is in Room 101?

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40: What is Winston's "final victory over himself"?

41.  Who is the protagonist?  What is her or his ultimate conflict?

42.  Who or what is the antagonist? 

43.  What is Newspeak?

44. What is Doublethink?

45. What is the prevailing symbolism?

46.  Each of the  three main movements of the novel has at its center, a plot movement. Discuss the three plot movements and the climatic point of each.

47. Why is Julia in this novel?

48. Winston's "change of heart" stems from what? Explain in depth, please.

49.  What is the Party and how does it work?

50.  Big Brother is alive and well in 2003? or is he?  Please take a stand on this and expand on your stance.

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