1984

Name: ___________________________________________________ Date: _____________

Part Two: I, II, III, IV

1. Describe what happens when the girl with the dark hair falls on the floor.

 2. What does the note say?

 3. How does Winston feel about the message on the note?

  4. Describe their next meeting.

 5. Describe their meeting in Victory Square.

 6. What emotions does Winston feel at first when the girl put her arms around him?

     What emotion didn’t he feel?

 7. What is the girl’s name?

8. Winston asks the girl what attracted her to him. What is her answer?

 9. What does the girl tell Winston about her attitude toward the party?

 10. Summarize Julia’s explanation of the meaning of the Party’s sexual puritanism.

 
11. According to Winston, how has the Party used the instinct of parenthood?

 12. What does Winston do the next time he visits the little shop? Why?

 13. What does Julia bring to their meeting?

 14. How does Winston react when he sees the rat?

 
Prereading Vocabulary Worksheets 1984
Part Two: I, II, III, IV
Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use
any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think
the italicized words mean in the space provided.

1. For several seconds he was too stunned even to throw the incriminating thing into the memory

     hole.
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 2. the irritating thing was that Winston could hardly hear what Parsons was saying, and was

    constantly having to ask for some fatuous remark to be repeated.

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 3. It was not safe to go near her until some more people had accumulated.

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4. With a sort of military precision that astonished him, she outlined the route that he was to follow.

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5. But for the moment they could not extricate themselves from the crowd.

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6. She stood before him very upright, with a smile on her face that looked faintly ironical, as though she were wondering why he was so slow to act.

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7. At the beginning he had no feeling except sheer incredulity.

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8. Winston watched it with a sort of vague reverence.

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9. Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.

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10. Julia appeared to be quite used to this kind of conversation, which she called “talking by

       installments.”

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 Part II: Determining the Meaning

Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.

___ 1. incriminating                A. parts of a series

___ 2. fatuous                        B. lack of belief

___ 3. accumulated                 C. foolish; silly

___ 4. precision                       D. wickedness

___ 5. extricate                       E. showing guilt

___ 6. ironical                         F. set free; release

___ 7. incredulity                    G. collected a little at a time

___ 8. vague                            H. not definite or precise

___ 9. iniquity                         I. expressing one thing and meaning another

___ 10. installments                J. accuracy; exactness