Which character is the protagonist as well as the narrator?
Who is Winston Smith?
100
This Party slogan symbolizes the danger in apathy (lack of care or effort) towards education and knowledge of government.
What is "Igorance is Strength"?
100
Where does Winston call home?
What is Oceania?
100
What Winston says about where his hope lays for a revolution against the Party.
"If there is hope, it lays with the proles."
100
Orwell uses this literary technique for the paperweight, the varicose ulcer, the old lady, and the diary.
What is symbolism?
200
Which character is Winston's love interest and joins him as an ally in the struggle against Big Brother?
Who is Julia?
200
This symbolizes the room that Winston and Julia stay in, as well as their lives, safe and yet confined to their love nest.
What is a glass paperweight?
200
Name the three superpowers that are at continuous war in the book.
What is Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia?
200
To do anything that suggests a taste for solitude (even to go for a walk by yourself).
What is ownlife?
200
A story that could have a secret hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one (such as 1984). (What is this called?)
What is an allegory?
300
Mr. Parsons
Who is Winston's neighbor, devoted Party member with two children. He is denounced by his own daughter near the end.
300
The symbolism of "INGSOC" in relation to the 1940s stands for this.
What is English Socialism?
300
The place where Part Three will take place (maintains law and order).
What is the Ministry of Love?
300
The ability to simultaneously think two contradictory beliefs.
What is doublethink?
300
Orwell includes several historical accounts in 1984. Throughout the book he identifies nations around WWII. This is an example of which literary technique?
What is an allusion?
400
Which character may or may not be a real person, but is looked as a leader simultaneously?
Who is Big Brother?
400
The bodily discomfort that symbolizes the internal struggle in Winston's mind
What is the varicose ulcer?
400
What is the name of the place where artists and radicals hung out in the old days, and where Winston saw the three traitors in the photograph
What is the Chestnut Tree Cafe?
400
The Party only wants people to populate the country with children. What is encouraged for this reason only?
What is marriage?
400
The ministry of truth being in charge of changing or falsifying historical documents is an example of which literary technique?
What is irony?
500
Which character was too smart to survive the Party?
Hint: Winston realized this when this character showed him all the new aspects of newspeak.
Who is Syme?
500
The leader of the rebellion against the Party
Who is Emmanuel Goldstein
500
Where are Winston and Julia at when they are arrested?
What is Mr. Charrington's shop?
500
What is the method used by Oceania's citizens to avoid having spontaneous anti-Party, criminal thoughts?
What is crimestop?
500
"He felt as though a fire was burning through his belly".
This quote after Winston receives the note from Julia contains what kind of literary technique?