1984 by George Orwell Quiz Bundle

This bundle of 20 assessments (10 objective versions and 10 alternate short answer versions) measures general reading comprehension and holds students accountable for understanding general plot details about George Orwell’s 1984. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats.

Questions pertain to the following key details:

• “Big Brother is watching you”
• Setting
• Winston’s job
• The telescreen and its purpose
• The ironic role of the Ministry of Peace
• Characteristics of proles
• Writing as an act of rebellion
• The Party’s efforts to stir up hate
• Winston’s feelings toward the Party
• Winston as a thought-criminal
• Winston’s fear of the Thought Police
• The Junior Spies and their job
• Public executions of the Party’s dissidents
• Winston’s dream involving O’Brien’s voice
• Winston’s dream involving his mother
• A government purge
• Physical jerks
• Why it is so difficult to recall one’s childhood
• Oceania’s enemy country
• Communication via the telescreen
• Comrade Withers
• The concept of “unpersoning” an individual
• The purpose of Newspeak
• Understanding Doublespeak
• Syme’s intelligence and Winston’s concerns about it
• Ironic messaging from the Ministry of Plenty
• Winston’s diary entry
• The government’s goal concerning sexual behavior
• Winston’s ex-wife
• Winston’s internal strife
• Winston’s assessment on who would best stage a revolt against the government
• Winston’s reasoning behind the aforementioned assessment
• The logic as to why the proles would not likely stage a revolt
• Living conditions
• A photograph and Winston’s concerns about it
• Winston’s belief on how reality should be determined
• Winston’s curiosity about actual history (not the Party-sanctioned accounts of it)
• Winston’s fear over being followed
• An alternative to the Thought Police’s torture
• The irony of Julia’s message to Winston
• Analysis of Julia’s comment, " We’re not dead yet."
• Hate Week
• The prisoner transport
• Winston’s reaction to Julia’s very personal admission
• Primary influences on Julia’s behaviors
• How the government manipulates people into frenzy
• Winston’s alarming admission about his ex-wife
• The room Winston rents
• Julia’s encounter with a rat
• The significance of the paperweight
• Winston’s imagination as he stares into the paperweight
• The expected vanishing of a character
• Winston’s reaction to the singing of a prole woman
• The hate song and other preparations for Hate Week
• Julia’s accusations against the Party
• An encounter with O’Brien
• O’Brien’s offer to Winston
• Winston’s nightmare
• Winston’s previous belief that he was responsible for his mom’s death
• A flood of memories returning
• The Party’s influence on its members
• How Winston and Julia are jeopardizing their own safety
• Winston and Julia’s desire to join the Brotherhood
• An encounter with O’Brien
• Winston’s feelings after his meeting with O’Brien
• Winston’s 90-hour work week
• Oceania’s new enemy
• Goldstein’s book
• A singing prole woman
• “We are the dead”
• The picture on the wall and what it conceals
• The sudden appearance of troops
• A realization about Mr. Charrington
• Winston’s imprisonment
• A prole woman with the last name of Smith
• An imprisoned poet and his crime
• Parson’s imprisonment and his crime
• Who turned Parsons in for his crime
• Winston’s suicidal thoughts
• O’Brien’s torture techniques/methods of persuasion
• The Party’s efforts to control the mind
• Winston’s growing appreciation for O’Brien
• The Party’s efforts to eliminate their opposition
• O’Brien’s comments about Julia
• Room 101
• Winston’s efforts to see the Party’s way
• Winston’s nightmare
• Winston’s confession that he still hates the Party
• Winston’s worst nightmare and O’Brien’s most effective torture technique
• Winston’s means of getting out of his torturous situation (betrayal)
• A reunion at the Chestnut Tree Cafe
• Winston’s ultimate feelings about Big Brother