This character is a combination of extraordinary and ordinary.
Who is Winston Smith?
100
This official language of Oceania is designed to narrow the range of thought in its citizens.
What is Newspeak?
100
This concrete "author's device" is used to represent an abstract thematic idea.
What is a symbol?
100
Two layers of meaning in 1984--one literal and one symbolic--put this book into what category or genre?
What is an allegory?
100
This thematic idea deals with the exploitation of Proles and the persecution of Jews.
What is oppression?
200
This character is vaporized because he is too smart and may pose a threat to Big Brother.
Who is Syme?
200
This is the ability to believe two opposing facts as true.
What is doublethink?
200
A reference in literature to something famous (like Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare,for example) is called this.
What is an allusion?
200
This term describes a literary genre which, like 1984 and Of Mice and Men, criticizes some "broken" aspect of a society.
What is social commentary?
200
This thematic idea deals with standing up to authority against a perceived wrong, in spite of potential danger to oneself.
What is rebellion?
300
This character, employed by the fiction department at the Ministry of Truth, believes that their own government is bombing them.
Who is Julia?
300
This is the ultimate purpose of Newspeak.
What is "narrowing of thought"?
300
This symbol represents the protected and safe world within the room above Charrington's shop.
What is the glass paperweight?
300
This genre is sometimes used to describe 1984, because it combines elements of science possibility with the author's imagination.
What is science fiction?
300
This thematic idea addresses the idea of eliminating uniqueness and individuality.
What is conformity?
400
This character befriends Winston and invites him to borrow his copy of the Newspeak Dictionary.
Who is O'Brien?
400
This machine simply switches around six basic plots
used in part of the fiction department.
What is the kaleidoscope?
400
This character's name is an allusion to the famous prime minister of Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) during WWII.
Who is Winston Smith?
400
This event during WWII London parallels the bombing in the Prole district of Oceania.
What is the Blitzkrieg?
400
This thematic idea tackles the self-preserving behavior of "looking the other way" or blindly accepting that the lie is the truth.
What is "protective stupidity"?
500
This character holds a connection to things from the past and offers Winston a safe haven in the room above his antique shop.
Who is Mr. Charrington?
500
"Doubleplusungood" may be translated into Oldspeak this way.
What is "very bad"?
500
These three things are all symbolic of the Prole's mindless distractions and inability to focus on important ideas such as government policy or economics.
What is football, lottery, and beer?
500
Although George Orwell denied it, most readers of 1984 believe that Big Brother is modeled after this dictator.
Who is Stalin?
500
This thematic idea best describes Big Brother's dangerous form of government.