1984 Chapter One

Ghazi’s Part

Q 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Question One: What is the main character of 1984’s name? How old is this individual?
Winston Smith, 39 years old.

Question Two: In the beginning of Chapter 1, you are told about a poster. This poster
seemed to follow the main character. What does the poster read? How is the poster
described?
“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” said the poster with an enormous face staring with eyes following
you wherever direction you’re standing.

Question Three: What is a telescreen? Provide as many details as you can.

Telescreen are devices that are meant to be televisions to entertain and also
were available in evenings and after daylight passes, but they’re also security cameras used to spy on
citizens to record their actions.

Question Four: Complete the sentence: “You had to live – did live, …” Cite the page
number where you found this quote.
“From habit that became instinct, in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and,
expect in darkness, every moment scrutinized”

Question Five: Where was the main character’s place of employment?

Records editor in the Records department – Ministry.

Question Six: What city does the main character reside? What is the name of the
country? What is the name of the nation?
Country: Oceania
“this was London, chief city of Airstrip One, itself the third most populous of the provinces of
Oceania” - Page 2 / Chapter 1

Question Seven: What is Newspeak?

Language of Oceania.

Question Eight: What are the three slogans of ‘the Party?’

War is Peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
Question Nine: What are the names of the four ministries? What was the concern of
each ministry? What are their names in Newspeak?
Ministry of Truth: Minitrue
Ministry of Peace: Minipax
Ministry of Love: Miniluv
Ministry of Plenty: Miniplenty

Question Ten: What was so frightening about the Ministry of Love? Provide as many
details as you can.
It had no windows; Winston has never been a kilometer close to that district. Impossible to penetrate
with “barbed wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets
leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with
jointed truncheons” Page 7

Zaid’s Part

Q11

Question Ten: The main character tells you that he acquires a book. What type of book is it?
How was this book acquired?
Dystopian fiction book, he indoctrinates Winston and Julia into the brotherhood and gives Winston a copy of
Emmanuel Goldstein’s book.

Riad’s Part

Q12, 13

Question Twelve: “The thing that he was about to do was ____ ____________ ___
________________.” Was this illegal? What was the punishment?
April 4th 1984. He was panicking and wrote everything out of sheer panic and he did not know what he wrote.

Question Thirteen: What is the first date in the main character’s diary? What incident caused the
main character to begin his diary on this particular date? (HINT: you’ll need to read a bit
further in the chapter to answer this question)
The thing was that he opened his diary, and he would have been sentenced to death or 25 years in forced
labor camp if detected.
 Abdelrahman Lattouf’s Part

Q14, 15, 16, 17, 18

Question Fourteen: Why did the main character hate women, especially young women in
particular?
The main character hates womans especially young womans because there was a particular girl which gave
him the impression of being more dangerous than most.

Question Fifteen: Who is O’Brien?

O’Brien is a fictional character who appears in the novel 1984 as the major antagonist.

Question Sixteen: Who is Emmanuel Goldstein?

Emmanuel Goldstein is the enemy of those who were previously important members of the Party but then
became involved in attack actions and were sentenced to death.

Question Seventeen: What is the name of the “vast shadowy army… underground network of
conspirators dedicated to the overthrow of the state?” What text did this group follow?
The Brotherhood, this group follow a text against the government.

Question Eighteen: What did the main character find so horrible about the Two-Minutes Hate?
Discuss his emotions. Quote the text if possible.
The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the
contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in.

Zaid’s Part

Q19

Question Nineteen: While the main character sat thinking about the incident, which led him to
begin his diary, he realized that he had been writing. What was it he discovered filling up half
the page? How did that make him feel?
He realizes that no one is sure of anything and whatever the party wants to be changed gets changed and feels
the government is doing a crime and his mind cleared and felt terrified at the end.