Habit – Art Educational Corporation State Professor in Language and Communication

Plot 4 San Ramón Bachelor of Education

Commune of Padre Las Casas Prof. Miss Daniela José Soto Riquelme

Evaluation: Reading Control

1984
George Orwell

Name: ………………………………………………………………………………….Course: 2nd year half A Date :………………. .

Requirement: 60% Total score: points Score obtained: Qualification:

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Instructions:

Item I.-

Mark the correct alternative on the answer sheet; you must fill in the circle completely.

1) 1984 is considered a political novel of the type: 2) What were "telescreens"?

A) utopian A) devices that entertained the inhabitants of
B) satirical Oceania
C) dystopian B) surveillance devices to know all the acts of each
D) historical individual
E) romantic C) machine that made people disappear.
D) giant televisions that broadcast war movies
E) tool that O" Brien used to communicate with
other individuals.

3) In which Ministry does the character Winston 4What physical problem did Smith have?
Smith work? A) he was missing an ear
A) Ministry of Love B) had a varicose vein ulcer above the right ankle
B) Ministry of Abundance C) He was invalid
C) Ministry of Peace D) was going blind
D) Ministry of Truth E) He was very fat and had a hard time working
E) Ministry of the Brotherhood hard.

5) "is responsible for administering punishments, 6) What did Winston Smith's job consist of?
torture and re-educating Party members" this A) He was in charge of matters related to Peace and
description corresponds to: War
A) Big Brother B) He was in charge of matters related to the
B) The ministry of truth economy
C) Eurasia C) In manipulating or destroying historical
D) The ministry of Love documents of all kinds
E) The ingsoc D) Torture the rebels who did not love big brother
E) Monitor as a thought police
7) The novel is located in a future London, part of a 8) Who is the supreme leader and dictator of
region called: Ingsoc?
A) Minpax A) Emmanuel Goldstein
B) Air Strip 1 B) Big Brother
C) Minver C) Winston Smith
D) Oceania D) O'Brien
E) Minmor E) Mr. Charrington

9) What is the Party's motto? 10) What was room 101?

A) "Strength is Love, Freedom is peace, Ignorance
is slavery"
B) "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is
Strength"
C) "Peace is War Slavery is Freedom Strength is
Ignorance"
D) "Love is peace, Freedom is strength, Ignorance
is the enemy"
E) "Love is freedom, Strength is peace, War is
slavery"
A) A space where people gathered to worship Big
Brother
B) A place of torture
C) The room where Julia lived
D) The hideout of Winston Smith and Julia
E) the place where the "telescreens" were

11) the earth was divided into three superpowers, 12) Oceania's ally was:
these were:
A) Central Asia
A) Oceania Central Asia and Eurasia B) Africa
B) Oceania Eurasia Stasia C) Eurasia
C) East Asia Eurasia Great Britain D) Stasia
D) China Japan and Korea E) East Asia
E) Oceania Europe and Estacia

13) What is The Brotherhood? 14) What are the "two minutes of hate"?

A) A group of young people that helps "the
offspring"
B) A revolutionary community of Oceania
C) A supposed resistance group led by Emmanuel
Goldstein
D) A book written by Winston Smith
E) The ministry dedicated to good human relations
A) it is an instance where ministry employees give
their complaints to Ingsoc
B) are minutes in which ministry employees must
express as fervently as possible their hatred of the
enemies of the regime
C) it is a practice that each employee uses to
express their physical discomfort
D) were the minutes in which enemies of the Party
were captured
E) was the time it took for Winston Smith to be
tortured

15) What is the main idea that the book wants to 16) Who is O'Brien?
convey?
A) A free thinker who helps Winston escape
A) The impunity with which they falsify history
and transform lies into truth
B) The value of freedom
C) Love as the most important thing that must
prevail in society
D) The relationship between the ideologies of the
80s to the current ones
E) Respect for government leaders
17What was the thought police?
A) was an organization that helped people with
their mental problems
B) an organization that was characterized by
arresting citizens who thought against what was
established by the Party
C) Police who invaded people's dreams
D) Imaginary beings in the novel written by
Winston Smith
E) They were dangerous criminals who deceived
people by posing as police officers
19) What was the idea of Newspeak?
A) simplify communication between people from
different countries through signs
B) Control and define the thinking of the population
with repressive political interests.
C) Build a new universal language
D) Getting rid of language more and more so that
people would not communicate with each other
E) they only used it to define concepts
21) What was the term vaporize used for?
A) When someone mysteriously disappeared
because they had ideas contrary to those of Big
Brother and never returned
B) When they erased the minds of the Party traitors
C) When the telescreens failed and people's records
were lost
D) It was a term used by the ministry of abundance
to eliminate historical books
ITEM II. TEMPORARY ORGANIZER. Place a number next to each sentence corresponding to how the
events occurred chronologically (one point each) .
B) A member of the Ingsoc who deceives Winston
Smith
C) Julia's husband
D) Winston's co-worker
E) A spy for the Brotherhood
18) What animal was used to torture Winston
Smith?
A) Snakes
B) Rats
C) Piranhas
D) Scorpions
E) Lions
20) Who were the "proles"?
A) they were the vast majority of the population
and did not belong to the Party
B) they were the most ostentatious men in the
population and belonged to the party
C) was the minority of the population, marginalized
from all types of social activity
D) were the leaders of The Brotherhood
E) They were the organizers of the Ingsoc
22) What happens to Julia and Winston at the end
of the book?
A) Both are released after torture and decide to get
married
B) They continue seeing each other secretly
C) They meet on one occasion and confess that they
had both betrayed each other, therefore they realize
that they no longer loved each other.
D) They take revenge on the Party by killing Big
Brother
E) Both die from a bullet to the back of the head
 Winston sees the “corpse” man in the prison.

Winston buys a glass sphere with a coral inside.

Winston and O'Brien exchange glances in Two Minutes Hate.

Winston and Julia are discovered.

Winston faces Room 101.

Julia hands a “little piece of paper” to Winston.

Winston is freed after torture.

Winston begins to write his diary.

Winston loves Big Brother.

Winston and Julia join The Brotherhood.

ITEM II. DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS : Read the following questions carefully and answer clearly
and precisely. Don't forget to take care of your writing, handwriting and spelling.

1. What reasons does the author have to justify that the INGSOC ideology of Oceania, the neo-Bolshevism of
Eurasia, and the Death Worship of Ecstasy were intended to perpetuate the lack of freedom and social
equality? Explain and give examples (8pts.)

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2. Define in your own words the concepts of Criminal, Doublethink, Newspeak and Paracrime (8pts.)
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