1984 Book 1 Overview

The main character of 1984, Winston Smith, lives which country?

• Eurasia

• Oceania

• Eastasia

• the United States

Answer explanation

Oceania is comprised of America and Great Britain, which is now called Airstrip One.

Unquestioning belief in a system at the expense of logical, independent thought is called ______________.

• orthodoxy

• rebellion

• originality

• iconoclasm

Answer explanation

iconoclasm: when someone attacks or assertively rejects cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices.

Party member neighborhoods in Oceania are plastered with posters of a man with a black moustache with the caption: "_________________ IS WATCHING YOU."

• The Party

• Emmanuel Goldstein

• Eastasia

• Big Brother

The three slogans of the Party: "War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength" contain all of the following EXCEPT:

• propaganda

• contradictions

• paradoxes

• logical sense

While Eastasia represents the Party's foreign opposition in the propaganda films of the Two Minutes Hate, traitor to the Party Emmanuel Goldstein is portrayed as Oceania's primary ________ enemy.

• domestic

• overseas

• international

• outside

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

During the Two Minutes Hate, Winston wonders whether his coworker __________ sees through the lies of the Party as Winston does.

• O'Brien

• Parsons

• Syme

• Charrington

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Winston himself works in which branch of the Party's government?

• the Ministry of Truth

• the Inner Party

• the Ministry of Love

• the Ministry of Plenty

The two Parsons children, who live next-door to Winston, demonstrate how the children who grow up amidst the Party's propaganda show strong signs of all the following EXCEPT:

• indoctrination or brainwashing

• desensitization to violence

• valuing the Party even higher than their own parents

• critical, independent thinking

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

The Party's official language, which is being used to manipulate thought by reducing the range of vocabulary with which people are allowed to use, is called:

• Newspeak

• Doublethink

• Thoughtcrime

• Facecrime

What Party principle is Winston reflecting on in this passage from page 44?

[Winston's] mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of _________. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic."

• doublethink

• censorship

• surveillance

• orthodoxy