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15. Where is the telescreen hidden in the room above Mr. Charrington’s shop?

1 point

Behind the poster of Big Brother

Behind the light fixture

Under the bed

Behind the picture of St. Clement’s

Clear selection

4. Match these Ministries of Oceania with their functions

4 points

It supports Oceania's perpetual war against either of the two other superstates

It rations and controls food, goods, and domestic production; every fiscal quarter, it claims to have raised the standard of living, even during times when it has, in fact, reduced rations, availability, and production.

It controls information: news, entertainment, education, and the arts.

It identifies, monitors, arrests and converts real and imagined dissidents

Ministry of Love

Ministry of Truth

Ministry of Plenty

Ministry of Peace

It supports Oceania's perpetual war against either of the two other superstates

It controls information: news, entertainment, education, and the arts.

It identifies, monitors, arrests and converts real and imagined dissidents

Ministry of Love

Ministry of Truth

Ministry of Plenty

Ministry of Peace

Clear selection

40. Which of the following options correctly describes this frame from the film '1984'?

2 points

Winston is committing a criminal act i.e. writing diary. And so has positioned himself as such that the Telescreen can capture his back only and cannot identify what he is doing.

Winston is writing transcript of the TV show

Winston is not interested in watching TV as it has turned out to be 'Godi-media' and telecasts nothing but propaganda about Big Brother and the Party

Clear selection

48. What is the significance of the glass paperweight in '1984'?

2 points

A) It represents Winston's longing for a past that has been erased

B) It symbolizes the fragility of the Party's power

C) It represents Julia's rebellion against the Party

D) It symbolizes the beauty of the natural world

Clear selection

23. What is the purpose of the Ministry of Truth?

1 point

To collect information about the Party's enemies

To document historic events for future generations

To alter historical records to fit the Party agenda

To manage economic shortages in Oceania

Clear selection

11. What is the last line of the St. Clement’s Church song?

1 point

Here comes the Party, dear Winston, you’re dead!

Here comes Big Brother to step on your shoe!

Until the mousetrap goes snap! on your head!

Here comes a chopper to chop off your head!

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53. What is the meaning of 'God is power'?

Check this for the answer - https://youtu.be/cj29I_MU3cA

2 points

By equating God with power, they are essentially saying that the God is the ultimate authority, with the power to control people's lives and shape their destiny. In this way, the God seeks to replace political beliefs with the theology, which is centered around the worship of the God and its leader, Big Brother.

It simply means that the most powerful things in the universe in the God

By equating God with power, they are essentially saying that the Party is the ultimate authority, with the power to control people's lives and shape their reality. In this way, the Party seeks to replace traditional religious and moral beliefs with its own ideology, which is centered around the worship of the Party and its leader, Big Brother.

Clear selection

47. What is the name of the Party's propaganda ministry in '1984'?

2 points

A) The Thought Police

B) The Ministry of Peace

C) The Ministry of Truth

D) The Ministry of Love

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43. What is the purpose of Newspeak in 1984?

2 points

A) To promote free speech

B) To eliminate all words that express dissent

C) To encourage creativity

D) To facilitate communication with other countries

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42. What is the outcome of Winston and Julia's attempt to rebel against the Party in '1984'?

2 points

A) They successfully overthrow the Party and establish a new government

B) They are captured and tortured until they betray each other and love Big Brother

C) They escape to a foreign country and live happily ever after

D) They commit suicide to avoid being captured by the Party

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28. Why won't the proles participate in a revolt against the Party?

1 point

The Party treats them well.

They figure they will be worse off in a revolution.

They are ignorant of the Party's control over them.

They believe that any revolt is destined to failure.

Clear selection

30. What does O'Brien invite Winston to his house for?

1 point

To read the secret handbook of the Brotherhood

To meet his wife and play poker with his friends

To look at the new edition of the Newspeak dictionary

To meet with a leader in the rebellion

Clear selection

37. Which of the following options correctly describes this frame from the film '1984'?

2 points

The women is Winston's lost sister, now grown into adulthood and faithful to 'The Party'

Winston is ready for morning routine for 'Physical Jerks'

The women is hiding gun in her hands and Winston has realised it so he is surrendering himself

Winston is ready for morning 'Yoga Sessions'

Clear selection

14. What happens to the glass paperweight?

1 point

Julia hides it under the mattress.

It is shattered on the floor.

It is confiscated by the Thought Police.

O’Brien flings it out the window.

Clear selection

46. What is the purpose of the "Two Minutes Hate" in '1984'?

2 points

A) To encourage patriotism

B) To show loyalty to the Party

C) To channel the citizens' anger towards a common enemy

D) To promote independent thinking

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50. What is the purpose of the "memory hole" in '1984'?

2 points

It is a computer database where Party officials store information

It is a tool used to brainwash citizens and erase their memories

It is a device used to erase all record of past events that are inconvenient to the Party

Clear selection

21. To what organization does Julia belong?

1 point

The Junior Spies

The Two Minutes Hate Committee

The Inner Party

The Junior Anti-Sex League

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39. "Which of the following options correctly describes this frame from the film '1984'?"

2 points

This is childhood memory of Winston when he was running from the air strikes in which so many bombs were dropped to destroy the city

This is childhood memory of Winston when he snatched chocolate from ill sister's hand and ran away

This kid is 'Junior Spy' and has found Winston committing though crime - and so is running to inform it to Though Police.

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33. "Tell me, — and remember, no lies: you know that I am always able to detect a lie—tell me, what are your true feelings towards Big Brother?’‘I hate him.’‘You hate him. Good. Then the time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him.’ He released him with a little push towards the guards.‘Room 101,’ he said." This talk is between?

2 points

Winston Smith and Big Brother

Julia and O'Brien

Winston Smith and O'Brien

Winston Smith and Julia

Clear selection

26. What is the public's reaction to the Party's efforts to alter historic records?

1 point

People are left in a constant state of frustration.

The Party's efforts breed contempt among the general population.

For the most part, people accept the altered fact.

The public never believes anything the Party says.

Clear selection

16. What is the name for the mass rally held every day?

1 point

The Two Minutes Rage

The Ten Minutes Hate

The Two Minutes Hate

The Daily Rage

Clear selection

51. What is the ultimate fate of Winston in 1984?

2 points

A) He is executed by the Party for his rebellion

B) He is sent to a labor camp where he works for the rest of his life

C) He is tortured until he betrays Julia and loves Big Brother

D) He successfully escapes to a foreign country and lives in exile

Clear selection

7. What organization urges children to turn their parents over to the authorities?

1 point

The Committee of Oceanian Patriotism

The Outer Party

The Junior Spies

The Party Youth

Clear selection

10. Where do Winston and Julia make love for the first time?

1 point

Trafalgar Square

The forest

The room above the antiques shop

The beach

Clear selection

32. Which of the other works of art matches to tone of '1984'?

2 points

Franz Kafka's The Trial

Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party

Shakespeare's As You Like It

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

44. What is the name of the torture device used to extract confessions in '1984'?

2 points

A) The Rack

B) The Whip

C) The Room 101

D) The Guillotine

Clear selection

36. Symbolism: Match the symbols with the meaning

8 points

symbolizes the Party in its public manifestation; he is a reassurance to most people (the warmth of his name suggests his ability to protect), but he is also an open threat (one cannot escape his gaze)

symbolizes weakening people’s memories and flooding their minds with propaganda, the Party is able to replace individuals’ memories with its own version of the truth

symbol of the Party’s constant monitoring of its subjects. In their dual capability to blare constant propaganda and observe citizens, the telescreens also symbolize how totalitarian government abuses technology for its own ends instead of exploiting its knowledge to improve civilization.

represents Winston’s one legitimate hope for the long-term future: the possibility that the proles will eventually come to recognize their plight and rebel against the Party.

The Red-Armed Prole Woman

Big Brother

The Telescreens

The Glass Paperweight And Picture of St. Clement’s Church

symbolizes weakening people’s memories and flooding their minds with propaganda, the Party is able to replace individuals’ memories with its own version of the truth

represents Winston’s one legitimate hope for the long-term future: the possibility that the proles will eventually come to recognize their plight and rebel against the Party.

The Red-Armed Prole Woman

Big Brother

The Telescreens

The Glass Paperweight And Picture of St. Clement’s Church

Clear selection

22. In which nation was Orwell born?

1 point

Bangladesh

Burma

India

Zanzibar

Clear selection

19. Who turns Parsons in to the Thought Police?

1 point

His wife

His children

O’Brien

Julia

Clear selection

54. In his essay “____________,” Orwell thinks reflexively about his time in primary school, stating, “till the age of about fourteen I believed in God, and believed that the accounts given of him were true. But I was well aware that I did not love him. On the contrary, I hated him, just as I hated Jesus…”

Check this for the answer - https://youtu.be/Zh41QghkCUA

2 points

1984

Bookshop Memories

Politics and the English Language

Such, Such Were the Joys

Clear selection

20. What does O’Brien say when Winston asks if he has been captured?

1 point

“I would die before I would let that happen.”

“They got me a long time ago.”

“I’m afraid so.”

“I am one of them

Clear selection

41. Which of the following options correctly describes this frame from the film '1984'?

2 points

Winston addressing an unknown readers of his diary as 'the past or the future'. The brick-space in the wall is where he hides his diary. In the novel, he puts the diary in the drawer.

The hall in the wall is the secret passage to pass on message with the rebel group known as 'The Brotherhood'. Winston is writing message for the Brotherhood.

Winston is at his workplace near 'memory hall' and will write pages and vaporize it in the flames of the fire.

Clear selection

2. What is the true name of George Orwell?

1 point

George Eliot

George Blair

Mary Ann Evans

Eric Arthur Blair

Clear selection

13. Which of the following characters is secretly a member of the Thought Police?

1 point

Winston

Mr. Charrington

Syme

Julia

Clear selection

1. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as '1984', is a ________ by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair).

1 point

utopian social science fiction novel

Scientific Fiction

dystopian social science fiction novel

Social Sci-fi

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49. What is the purpose of the "Room 101" in '1984'?

2 points

A) It is a torture chamber used to extract confessions

B) It is a meeting room where Party officials discuss policy

C) It is a place where citizens go to express their grievances to the Party

D) It is a place where citizens go to receive rewards for their loyalty to the Party

Clear selection

27. What is the goal of Newspeak, as Syme explains it to Winston?

1 point

To reduce the language to only pleasant-sounding words

To incorporate all languages into one

To narrow language so that thoughtcrime is impossible

To make every word start with the letter A

Clear selection

55. Match with reference to '1984 as Critique of Religion'

Check this for the answer - https://youtu.be/Zh41QghkCUA

10 points

The Abrahamic Religions

Primordial image of God

Purgatoria

Inferno

Theocracy

Big Brother

Three Superstates

The Party

Room 101

Ministry of Love

Clear selection

3. The pen-name George Orwell is combination of . . . .

1 point

George, regular first name - and - Orwell, is the family name, the surname

George is his favorite author - and - Orwell, is the river

George the V, the king of England - and - Orwell, the river

Clear selection

31. According to the manifesto, why do the three global powers engage in perpetual war?

1 point

To keep the populace preoccupied and maintain power among the elite

To consolidate economic power in the hands of the military

Each country believes it will eventually win control over the world.

To encourage the development of better weaponry

Clear selection

24. What is the purpose of the Junior Spies?

1 point

It teaches children to be ninjas.

It is a television program that offers propaganda to Oceania's youth.

It trains children to spy on their parents and other adults.

It is a training program for future spies in the Oceania military.

Clear selection

29. What is the Party motto?

1 point

All for one and one for all

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Tune in. Turn on. Drop out.

Big Brother is watching.

Clear selection

38. Which of the following options correctly describes this frame from the film '1984'?

2 points

This sequence is faithful to the narrative of the novel wherein Winston gets new edition of Newspeak dictionary form O'Brien

This sequence in the film adaptation is not faithful to the novel. In novel, Winston and Julia visits O'Brien's office to be part of the 'Brotherhood'.

This is Big Brother's office and once in a lifetime, Winston gets a chance to have wine with him

Clear selection

45. What is the purpose of the telescreens in 1984?

2 points

A) To monitor the weather

B) To broadcast propaganda

C) To show entertainment programs

D) To facilitate communication between citizens

Clear selection

5. Winston commits thoughtcrime by writing which of the following in his diary?

1 point

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER

I HATE BIG BROTHER

DOWN WITH THE PARTY

DEATH TO BIG BROTHER

Clear selection

17. Besides Oceania, what are the two countries that make up the rest of the Earth?

1 point

Eurasia and Australasia

Eurasia and Eastasia

Eastasia and Africasia

Australasia and Americom

Clear selection

34. Match

8 points

Joseph K.

Victor

Stanley Webber

Winston Smith

Pinter's One for the Road

Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four

Pinter's The Birthday Party

Kafka's The Trial

Clear selection

52. Who said this: "We are the priests of the power... God is power"?

Check this for the answer - https://youtu.be/cj29I_MU3cA

2 points

Big Brother

Syme

O'Brien

Goldstein

Clear selection

8. The psychological principle that allows an individual to believe contradictory ideas at the same time is called what?

1 point

Doublemind

Thoughtcrime

Doublethink

Doublespeak

Clear selection

9. What does O’Brien use to torture Winston in Room 101?

1 point

Hallucinogenic drugs

A cage full of rats

A laser heat machine

A machine that causes full-body physical pain

Clear selection

35. The novel ends with this - "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother." - And - the film ends with this frame in the image. With which of the following observation do you agree?

Read here to know about the movie adaptations - https://blog.dilipbarad.com/2021/06/1984.html

2 points

While the film—like the novel—ends with Winston encountering an image of Big Brother, the film seems to indicate that the image instills shame, regret, or grief in Winston; while the image in the novel instills love for Big Brother.

While the film ends on an happy note - a true love for Big B is aroused in Winston Smith; the novel ends with no such reference.

The film as well as the novel ends with deep love in the eyes of Winston Smith

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25. Why does Winston have trouble remembering his childhood?

1 point

He has been brainwashed by the Party.

He suffered a traumatic accident as a teenager.

He has no photos or other records of that time.

He has subconsciously buried the painful memories of his youth.

Clear selection

12. What does Winston trace in the dust on the table at the end of the novel?

1 point

I love Big Brother

O’Brien

2 + 2 = 5

I love Julia

Clear selection

6. What piece of evidence of the Party’s dishonesty does Winston remember having coming across several years earlier?

1 point

A photograph proving that certain individuals were out of the country when they were allegedly committing a crime

A diary containing O’Brien’s secret confession that Big Brother does not exist

A tape-recorded conversation of Emmanuel Goldstein admitting that he is a Party operative, not a Party enemy

A videotape from a telescreen showing Inner Party members burning historical documents

Clear selection

18. What project is Syme working on at the beginning of the novel?

1 point

A pamphlet on Emmanuel Goldstein

A new slogan for the party

A Newspeak dictionary

A revision of a children’s history book

Clear selection

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