General Knowledge, 1
This animal appears in the attic Winston rents.
What is a rat?
The setting.
A controlled language created by the totalitarian state as a tool to limit freedom of thought, and concepts that pose a threat to the regime such as freedom, self-expression, individuality, and peace
What is Newspeak?
The novel's protagonist and a quiet 39-year-old man living in Oceania
Who is Winston Smith?
This person disappeared during the protagonist's childhood
Who are either Winston's mother or his sister?
"If there is hope, it lies in the..."
What are The Proles?
This is where Julia first wants to meet Winston, because she believes it will be safe.
What is Victory Square?
120 seconds each day during which all party members sit together in front of a telescreen.
What is the two minutes hate?
Obtaining this object is the excuse O'Brien gives Winston for them to meet at his house.
What is a dictionary?
Protagonist's neighbor and coworker, a simple person who accepts everything the Party tells him or her (also, really sweaty, not that we judge that)
This person rents the attic to Winston and Julia
"Freedom is the freedom to say that ________." If that is granted, all else follows."
What is "two plus two make four"?
The act of ordinary people simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct
What is doublethink?
What is "the worst thing in the world"?
The party, according to O'Brien, controls the laws of nature, because they control this.
What is "the mind"?
The symbol of Oceania and the Party, Oceania's supreme leader, and who is omnipresent through telescreen projections
Who is Big Brother?
The protagonist steals a piece of chocolate from this person during his childhood.
Who is Winston's little sister?
"He had won the victory over himself. He loved ________."
Who is Big Brother?
The "principle traitor, the earliest defiler of the party's purity."
Who is Emmanuel Goldstein?
This is what Winston purchases from the junk shop after his ill-fated trip to the pub.
What is a paperweight?
Devices which operate as both televisions and security cameras.
What is "telescreen"?
A prominent party member with whom the novel's protagonist feels a strange bond
Who is O'Brien?
Protagonist's spouse who never directly appears in the novel and is described as "unthinkful"
Who is Katharine?
"On it was written, in large, uniformed handwriting: _________."
What is "I LOVE YOU"?
Reality control, or making original figures and information match with later ones, is just one part of this part of Winston's life.
In the world of Oceania, the family becomes an extension of this, especially children.
What are the Thought Police?
Which Ministry rations and controls food, goods, and domestic production
What is the Ministry of Plenty?
A poet who works in the Records Department rewriting objectionable Oldspeak poems
Who is Ampleforth?
Who is Syme?
“He who _______ the past _______ the future. He who ________ the present ________ the past.”
What is control?