Grade 11/ British Literature and Advanced British Literature: 1984 by George Orwell

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1 NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY HIGH SCHOOL, INC. Member of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools One Lawtons Hill Pottsville, Pennsylvania Phone Fax website: Summer Reading Study Guide Please download and complete the study guide below as you read your assigned novel. The study guide is due on the first day of school. No exceptions! Grade 11/ British Literature and Advanced British Literature: 1984 by George Orwell 1. What is Winston's apartment called? 2. What is the official language of Oceania? 3. What is the most frightening ministry of Oceania's government? 4. How does Victory Gin smell? 5. What is the name of the television-like appliance constantly watching Oceania's citizens? 6. What important thing does Winston do when he comes home in Part 1, Chapter 1? 7. The Enemy of the People is During the Two Minutes Hate, what does everyone in the room do? 9. What is the resistance to the Party called? 10. When the Thought Police secretly arrest and execute someone, most people would say that person has been. 11. What does Winston write repeatedly in his diary after thinking about the Two Minutes Hate? 12. By writing in his diary, Winston has committed a crime. What is the name of this crime? 13. What does Mrs. Parsons want Winston to do in Part 1, Chapter 2? 14. What is everyone in Oceania supposed to call each other? 15. What smell is common to Winston's apartment building? 16. What do Mrs. Parsons' children want to see in Part 1, Chapter 2? 17. The telescreen announces a reduction in what type of rations? 18. Where does Winston work? 19. What keeps falling on London? 20. Where did Oceania recently have a military victory? 21. What is the name of the song on the telescreen?

2 22. What is written on the flag that keeps flapping? 23. What does one of the Parsons children use to hit Winston in the neck? 24. "Thoughtcrime does not entail death: " 25. Who are the first two people Winston dreams about in Part 1, Chapter 3? 26. What does the girl with the dark hair do in Winston's dream? 27. How many clothing coupons does Winston get annually? 28. What did Airstrip One used to be called? 29. What fell on Colchester? 30. What is the name of the mandatory morning exercise program? 31. What does Ingsoc mean? 32. What does the woman in the telescreen call Winston? 33. With whom is Oceania at war? 34. What ailment does Winston suffer from? 35. What word is on Winston's lips when he awakens from his dream in Part 1, Chapter 3? 36. What is the last thing Winston does in Part 1, Chapter 3? 37. What is the name of the waste paper disposal chute in Winston's workplace? 38. What is the name of the device Winston uses to write? 39. What newspaper does Winston re-write? 40. Who/what is Tillotson? 41. What does Ampleforth have a talent for juggling? 42. What is Winston's most important task of the day in Part 1, Chapter 4? 43. What is the Newspeak name for people who have been vaporized? 44. Who is the vaporized man Winston must delete from The Times? 45. What is the name of the dead hero Winston invents? 46. What is the minimum age for joining the Spies? 47. What organization supplied comforts to the sailors on the Floating Fortress? 48. What doesn't Winston give Ogilvy? 49. How much does it cost for a nip of gin at the canteen? 50. What is the name of Winston's "friend" who works at the Research Department? 51. What edition of the Newspeak dictionary is currently being written? 52. What is there a shortage of in Oceania? 53. In Newspeak, what word will eventually replace "bad"? 54. "The Revolution will be complete when the is perfect." 55. What does Winston think will happen to Syme? 56. What is Parsons collecting money for in Part 1, Chapter 5? 57. Why did Parsons' daughter report a man to the police? 58. In Part 1, Chapter 5, what is one of the latest, favorite phrases of the Ministry of Plenty?

3 59. Having an improper expression is called a. 60. What do Parsons' children to do the old market-woman? 61. What is Winston doing at the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 6? 62. What is the name of Winston's wife? 63. Consorting with prostitutes was "dangerous,." (Part 1, Chapter 6) 64. What is used only by the proles? 65. What is the ideal way for children to be conceived in Oceania? 66. When Winston sees the prostitute in the light, he sees that she is. 67. What does the prostitute not have? 68. What is Winston's nickname for his wife? 69. Katharine has two names for sex. One is "making a baby." What is the other? 70. What urge is stronger than ever when Winston was finished writing about the prostitute? 71. What does the Junior Anti-Sex League do? 72. What does Winston decide to do with the prostitute? 73. According to Part 1, Chapter 7, where does hope lie? 74. What type of hats do capitalists supposedly wear? 75. Who were three of the original survivors of the revolution of whom Winston saw a picture? 76. What was Rutherford's previous job? 77. In Part 1, Chapter 7, Winston wonders, as he had many times before, if he is a. 78. For whom is Winston writing his diary? 79. Where does Winston miss a meeting in Part 1, Chapter 8? 80. What is the Newspeak word for individualism? 81. What do the proles call rocketbombs? 82. How does Winston recognize the junk shop? 83. What does Winston buy in the junk shop? 84. What do the bells of St. Clement's say? 85. Who does Winston see in the hallway in Part 2, Chapter 1? 86. What does the note left by the individual whom Winston sees in the hall say? 87. Why does Winston have to falsify production reports? 88. Who spoils Winston's plans to sit with the dark-haired girl in Part 2, Chapter 1? 89. In Part 2, Chapter 1, where do Winston and the dark-haired girl agree to meet? 90. What is the last thing the dark-haired girl does before departing from Winston in Part 2, Chapter 1? 91. How many kilometers can someone travel in Oceania before their passport is checked? 92. What type of flower does Winston collect before meeting the dark-haired girl? 93. What concealed danger does Winston have to be careful of in the countryside?

4 94. Who is Julia? 95. What does Julia say is "the only way to stay safe"? 96. How many times has Julia had sex? 97. In Part 2, Chapter 3, what will be Julia and Winston's next meeting place? 98. What does Julia call the only safe way to talk in public? 99. How does Julia describe herself? 100. What happened to the Inner Party member with whom Julia had her first affair? 101. Of what do Winston and Julia not discuss the possibility? 102. In Part 2, Chapter 3, what is Winston sorry he didn't do to his wife? 103. What device is used to write songs? 104. Which event's preparations causes an increase in working hours in Part 2, Chapter 4? 105. What is the prole woman doing outside the window in Part 2, Chapter 4? 106. Why does Julia ask Winston to turn around in Part 2, Chapter 4? 107. What is Winston's phobia? 108. What does Julia think is behind the picture in Part 2, Chapter 4? 109. In Part 2, Chapter 5, who has been vaporized? 110. What is the theme song of Hate Week? 111. How do the proles normally feel about the war? 112. Who does Julia think is really launching the rocketbombs? 113. What does the Party claim to have invented? 114. Julia is only a rebel What differentiates the way O'Brien speaks from other Inner Party members? 116. What is the reason for O'Brien's encounter with Winston? 117. Who will meet Winston if O'Brien isn't home? 118. What kind of pencil does O'Brien use? 119. If independent thought and a diary are the first step, what is the last step? 120. By Part 2, what is waiting for Winston? 121. What does Winston remember above all about his childhood? 122. What did Winston steal from his baby sister? 123. What was the refugee woman doing in Winston's dream in Part 2, Chapter 7? 124. What is the only thing that the Party cannot do to Winston and Julia? 125. What does everybody do when tortured? 126. According to Part 2, Chapter 7, what remains impregnable? 127. What does the area where Inner Party members live smell like? 128. What special privilege do Inner Party members have? 129. What is the name of O'Brien's servant, and where does Winston think he is from? 130. What is the only thing Winston and Julia are not capable of doing? 131. What is the last line of the rhyme in Part 2, Chapter 8?

5 132. What will happen thirty seconds after Winston leaves O'Brien's house? 133. Who is Oceania at war with in Part 2, Chapter 8? 134. Where was Winston when he discovered the war had switched again in Part 2, Chapter 8? 135. What is the title of Emmanuel Goldstein's book? 136. What important word does not exist in Newspeak? 137. What is the only efficient thing in Oceania? 138. What is not statistical, as stated in Part 2, Chapter 8? 139. What words bring the beginning of the end for Julia and Winston? 140. Where was the telescreen that caught Winston and Julia hidden? 141. What was smashed during the arrest of Winston and Julia? 142. What were the police holding when they arrested Winston and Julia? 143. To what organization does Mr. Charrington really belong? 144. What does Mr. Charrington order the officers to do in Part 2, Chapter 10? 145. Where does Winston think he is at the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 1? 146. Of what are the walls of Winston's cell made? 147. What do the common criminals call the political prisoners? 148. Why was Ampleforth arrested? 149. Why was Parsons arrested? 150. What is the most feared place in the Ministry of Love? 151. What does Winston's bed feel like in Part 3, Chapter 2? 152. How long has O'Brien been watching Winston? 153. What bone is Winston especially afraid will break in Part 3, Chapter 2? 154. What does O'Brien show to Winston in Part 3, Chapter 2? 155. How many fingers is O'Brien holding up in Part 3, Chapter 2? 156. Why are people brought to the Ministry of Love? 157. What are the three stages to Winston's reintegration? 158. Who wrote Goldstein's book? 159. What should be the starting point to Winston's thoughts, as stated in Part 3, Chapter 3? 160. What is the object of power, according to O'Brien? 161. How does one man assert his power over another, as stated in Part 3, Chapter 3? 162. Does Winston believe in God? 163. What makes Winston feel sick in Part 3, Chapter 4? 164. In Part 3, Chapter 4, what is the third phrase Winston writes? 165. What will be the one certain thing about Winston's death? 166. What does Winston realize about secrets? 167. Where has Winston failed to make progress by Part 3, Chapter 4? 168. How does Winston feel towards Big Brother?

6 169. Where does Winston think he is in Part 3, Chapter 5? 170. What is in Room 101? 171. What was the only way for Winston to save himself in Part 3, Chapter 5? 172. Where were rats a common punishment? 173. Who does Winston say to give the rat torture to instead of him? 174. What does the cage door do in Part 3, Chapter 5? 175. According to Part 3, Chapter 6, who is Oceania at war with, and has always been at war with? 176. What is the specialty gin of the cafe? 177. In Part 3, Chapter 6, what does Winston have plenty of these days? 178. What makes Winston cry in Part 3, Chapter 6? 179. By Part 3, Chapter 6, to what has Winston been appointed? 180. What has it taken Winston forty years to learn the nature of?