Historical Context
All about Winston
Literary Devices
Useless factoids
Plot, etc.
100
The year 1984 was published.
What is 1949?
100
Winston's last name.
What is Smith?
100
In the setting of 1984, all of Winston's building smells of this.
What is boiled cabbage?
100
The year Ms. Johnston graduated high school? (remember when I read the book last?)
What is 1986?
100
The 3 social classes
What are the Inner Party, The Outer Party, and the Proles?
200
While 1984 is Dystopian, it is also this type of fiction that asks "what if" about the future.
What is speculative fiction?
200
Winston wrote this over and over in his notebook (subconsciously) when the Two Minute Hate was playing.
What is "Down with big brother"?
200
The following quotation from chapter 1, is a great example of this literary device (designed to have the reader experience what the characters a).
"The next moment a hideous, grinding screech, as some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge...."
What is imagery?
200
One prevalent symbol on the 1984 book covers through the years.
What are eyes?
200
The character (person) always featured on screen during "The Two Minutes Hate."
Who is Emmanuel Goldstein?
300
1984 was published on the heels of this deadly war.
What is WW2?
300
Winston Smith works here.
What is the department of records at the Ministry of Truth?
300
Chapter 4 ends with an allusion to this famous Roman general (and character from a Shakespearean historical tragedy). Chapter 4 ends with an allusion to this famous Roman general (and character from a Shakespearean historical tragedy). 
Who is Julius Caesar?
300
The most famous computer was launched in 1984.
What is Macintosh?
300
The name of the fictional language that was designed to limit freedom of thought.
What is Newspeak?
400
A political and economic system that opposes capitalism and advocates for a classless system in which the means of production are owned by everyone equally and where private wealth is nonexistent.
What is Communism?
400
The reason Winston hates the dark-haired girl.
What is: because he wanted to go to bed with her and he knew he never would?
400
The Ministry of Love, where torture and humiliation are used to break individuals, stands in stark contrast to its name, highlighting the Party's deception.
Name this literary device used here.
What is irony?
400
This song won a Grammy in 1984. The name of the song and artist:
What is "Every Breath You Take" by the Police?
400
The act of accepting 2 contradictory beliefs as correct simultaneously. (Designed to make one feel ok with a lack of truth.)
What is doublethink?
500
George Orwell died at 46 of this disease.
What is tuberculosis?
500
The name of the person Winston invented to play the party at their own game...giving him a full history that never existed.
Who is Comrade Ogilvy?
500
"Winston was dreaming of his mother. ...His father he remembered more vaguely as dark and thin....his mother's memory tore at his heart because she died loving him."
This is an example of _________________
What is flashback?
500
The American president in 1984.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
500
The country with which Oceana was at war, and the one that was an ally.
What are Eurasia and Eastasia?