1984

Name: ____________________________________________________________ Date: _____________

Part Two: IX, X

1. Why is Winston working such long hours?

2. According to The Book, what is the aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the principles of

    doublethink)?

3. According to The Book, what is really going on with the war, and why?

4. While Winston is reading Chapter 1 of The Book, he stops for a minute. Why does he stop

     reading?

5. How is the current government different than any previous governments? What invention

     enables it to be like this?

6. Explain the organization of the Party.

7. Explain the concept of doublethink.

8. What is the one thing that Winston and Julia know they will never do together?

9. While Winston and Julia are in the room, he says, “We are the dead,” and Julia repeats the phrase.

     What happens next?

10. What does Winston discover about Mr. Charrington?

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. The Spies performed prodigies of activity in clambering over the rooftops and cutting the

     streamers that fluttered from the chimneys.

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2. In the centers of civilization war means no more than a continuous shortage of consumption

    goods.

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3. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

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4. In his capacity as an administrator, it is often necessary for a member of the Inner Party to know

    that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and he may often be aware that the entire war is

    spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared

    ones; . . . .

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5. The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were

     founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

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6. And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the

    diminution of human liberty.

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7. This explains the fact that in some places the frontiers between the super states are arbitrary.

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8. The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable.

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9. Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is

     infallible.

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10. Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is

       infallible.

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Part II: Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.

___ 1. prodigies                      A. things that are made to be used up

___ 2. consumption                B. free from error

___ 3. hierarchical                  C. reduction; decrease

___ 4. spurious                       D. arranging things one above the other by rank

___ 5. empirical                       E. based on experiment and observation

___ 6. diminution                    F. false; not genuine

___ 7. arbitrary                       G. marvelous examples

___ 8. irreconcilable               H. not going by a rule or law

___ 9. omnipotent                   I. not able to agree

___ 10. infallible                      J. having great power or influence