Quiz Questions

1. Which three people does Winston see in his dream?
2. About how old was Winston when his parents disappeared?
3. What does Winston call the pasture in his recurring dreams?
4. What word does Winston wake up with on his lips?
5. On what city does Winston remember an atomic bomb having fallen?
6. What Party slogan begins “Who controls the past…”?
7. What is the Newspeak word for “reality control”?
8. In what decade does Winston think he remembers first hearing of Big Brother?
9. What is the Oldspeak term for Ingsoc?
10. What does the Party falsely claim to have invented?

Quiz Answers

1. Winston sees his mother, his sister, and the dark-haired girl from the Fiction Department.
2. Winston was ten or eleven when his parents disappeared.
3. Winston calls the pasture in his dreams “the Golden Country.”
4. Winston wakes up with the word “Shakespeare” on his lips.
5. Winston remembers an atomic bomb falling on Colchester.
6. The slogan is “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
7. The Newspeak word for “reality control” is doublethink.
8. Winston thinks he remembers first hearing of Big Brother in the 1960s.
9. The Oldspeak term for Ingsoc is “English Socialism.”
10. The Party falsely claims to have invented airplanes.