1984

Question 1

define science fiction

Answer 1

a form of fiction that deals with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals

Question 2

when was 1984 published

Answer 2

June 8, 1949

Question 3

how many novels did Orwell publish before he died

Answer 3

9

Question 4

how did Orwell die

Answer 4

of tuberculosis in January 1950

Question 5

define Big Brother

Answer 5

-government figure, a symbol, instills fear, always watching

Question 6

define newspeak

Answer 6

the official language of Oceania

Question 7

define doublethink

Answer 7

the act of simultaneously accepting two contradictory beliefs as correct

Question 8

define thoughtcrime

Answer 8

the act of committing a crime in your thoughts against the government

Question 9

define hate week

Answer 9

-all party members let out all their rage on the enemy
-redirects hatred from the party to the enemy

Question 10

define thought police

Answer 10

-replaces traditional law enforcement
-serve as the judge, jury, and executioner for crimes against the party

Question 11

define Ministry of Truth

Answer 11

-propaganda
-alters history

Question 12

what happened in chapter 1

Answer 12

-winston entered his appartment
-he wrote in his diary
-winston went to the two minutes of hate
-he realized his hate was not directed to goldstein but to big brother
-he committed a thought crime (wrote down with big brother) and knew that the thought police would come punish him

Question 13

What is the setting in chapter 1

Answer 13

-cold day in april at 1pm
-london, chief city of airstrip one in oceania

Question 14

where does winston live

Answer 14

victory mansion

Question 15

what do we know about winston smith

Answer 15

-39
-has a varicose ulcer above his right ankle
-small, frail
-works for ministery of truth

Question 16

what do we know about O’brian

Answer 16

-member of the inner party
-large, burly, thick neck
-charming
-wears spectacles

Question 17

who is emmanuel goldstein

Answer 17

-enemy of the people
-was a leading figure but betrayed when he spoke for freedom
-lean, jewish, white hair, goatee

Question 18

what is the slogan of the party

Answer 18

war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength

Question 19

what is evidence that airstrip one is broke

Answer 19

-they needed to “survive winter”
-smells like cabbage
-patchwork houses
-bomb craters that have yet to be fixed
-power out during the day

Question 20

what happened in chapter 2

Answer 20

-it was Mrs.Parsons at winston’s door asking him to help fix her sink
-winston went to help
-two kids yelled at winston and called him a traitor
-winston went home, watched the news, and wrote in his diary
-he already considers himself a dead man

Question 21

what is the Parsons’ flat like

Answer 21

-bigger than winston’s
-dingy, battered, messy
-has the boiled cabbage smell

Question 22

what do we know about Mrs. Parsons

Answer 22

-winston’s neighbour, 30 but looks older

Question 23

what do we know about Parsons

Answer 23

-winston’s neighbour
-works with him at Ministery of Truth
-fat but active
-stupid
-35

Question 24

what happened in chapter 3

Answer 24

-winston thinks about his family and how they sacrificed themselves for him
-winston had to get up and exercise with the telescreen
-winston does not have full memories of his childhood but he remembers the first air raid that began the constant war
-winston got in trouble for not trying hard enough in the exercise

Question 25

what is Golden Country

Answer 25

-a place in winston’s imagination -old, field, sunny, has elm trees and streams

Question 26

what do we know about winston’s mom

Answer 26

-tall, statuesque, silent -slow movements -fair hair

Question 27

what do we know about winston’s father

Answer 27

-dark and thin -wore neat dark clothes and spectacles

Question 28

what do we know about winston’s sister

Answer 28

-he only remembers her as a baby -silent with large eyes

Question 29

what has the party done with the past

Answer 29

“who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” -destroyed and rewrote history until their lies became the truth -erased peoples personal memories

Question 30

how are the people in 1984 survallienced

Answer 30

-using a telescreen -hidden cameras, microphones -constantly monitored

Question 31

what was a very important leap in surveillance and human nature

Answer 31

Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon

Question 32

what was Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon

Answer 32

-had a central glass cylinder to view prisons -could see out but prisoners could not see in -they could not view all prisoners at the same time so prisoners had to assume they were always being watched -the ulimate enforcer

Question 33

what is ingsoc

Answer 33

-the party’s philosophy -newspeak, doublethink, and mutability of the past

Question 34

what is the brotherhood

Answer 34

-a group against the government

Question 35

define reality control

Answer 35

-controls the media to only promote the beliefs of the party

Question 36

what did winston’s dream about the golden country represent

Answer 36

his desire for freedom -he did not care about the naked woman, but about her disobedience to the party

Question 37

where did winston’s family flee during the first air raid

Answer 37

-the tube station