1. Tick () the correct option for the following questions.

(1x10=10)

i. What is Winston's job at the Ministry of Truth?

a. Thought Police
b) Records editor
c) Telescreen technician
d) Prole education
ii. Which one of these is not a slogan for the party?
a) Freedom is Slavery
b) War is Peace
c) Ignorance is Strength
d) All Animals are Equal
iii. What is the daily ritual where citizens express hatred towards Oceania's enemies?
a) The Thoughtcrime Hour
b) The Two Minutes Hate
c) The Big Brother Speech
d) The Victory Parade
iv. What is the name of the forbidden book Winston seeks to learn about?
a) The Party Manifesto
b) Goldstein's Book
c) The History of Oceania
d) The Newspeak Dictionary
v. What is the purpose of the Brotherhood, as described by O'Brien?
a) To overthrow the Party by inciting a prole revolution.
b) To infiltrate the Inner Party and work for reform from within.
c) To provide a sense of community for rebels like Winston and Julia.
d) To spread dissent and challenge the Party's authority through propaganda.
vi. What is the first test Winston faces in Room 101?
a) He is forced to watch Julia being tortured.
b) He is presented with the threat of nuclear war.
c) He is confronted with his deepest childhood fear.
d) He is forced to renounce his love for Julia.
vii. What literary device is most prominent in the phrase "War is Peace"?
a) Simile
b) Symbolism
c) Metaphor
d) Paradox
viii. What does O'Brien reveal about the nature of reality of life in Oceania in Part 3 of George
Orwell’s 1984?
a) It's a product of collective human perception.
b) It's an objective and unchanging truth.
c) It's a personal construct created by each individual.
d) It can be manipulated by the Party to suit its needs.
ix. What is O'Brien's true purpose in torturing Winston?
a) To break his spirit and make him love Big Brother.
b) To extract information about the Brotherhood.
c) To punish him for thoughtcrime.
d) To test his loyalty to Julia.
 x. What happens to Winston's love for Julia at the end of Part 3 of 1984?
a) It is completely destroyed due to the pressures of Room 101.
b) It remains strong despite the torture and manipulation they faced.
c) It transforms into a sense of camaraderie and shared suffering.
d) It evolves into a deep resentment and blame towards her.

2. Following are the short questions containing 3-5 marks each:

1. How does a telescreen differ from a normal television?

Ans: It is a two-way screen. Small details such as heart beat and change in expressions can be
picked up by someone watching on the other side. Telescreens are used not only to distribute
information or propaganda but also used to spy on the party members by the Thought Police.

2. How do the Party’s governmental mechanism, the four Ministries, contradict in their actions
versus their names?
Ans: The Ministry of Truth controls the media and helps spread lies, the Ministry of Peace brings
and oversees war, the Ministry of Plenty controls the distribution of resources which are scarce,
and the Ministry of Love tortures political dissidents or anyone who commits thought crime.

3. Describe the Parsons family from part 1 and what they represent in George Orwell’s 1984.
Ans: The Parsons are Winston’s neighbours consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Parsons and their two
children. They represent what the Party would perceive as the ideal family. They are loyal,
compliant, naive and completely under the spell of the Party.

4. What is Room 101 and what is its purpose?

Ans: Room 101, is the basement torture chamber in the Ministry of Love, in which the Party
attempts to subject a prisoner to their own worst nightmare, fear or phobia, with the objective
of breaking down their resistance.

5. In 1984, what is the purpose of marriage, according to the party?

Ans: According to the Party in 1984, the only purpose of marriage is to procreate and help raise
a completely orthodox Party member. Even their marriage and family should be all about the
party.

3. Following are the short questions containing 5-7 marks each:

1. Analyze the potential consequences of using Newspeak as the dominant language in Oceania.
How can a language like Newspeak control thought and limit human potential?

Answer: Newspeak, with its limited vocabulary and emphasis on restricting thought, serves as a
powerful tool for controlling the population. By removing words that express dissent or independent
thought, the Party effectively limits the ability of individuals to even conceptualize rebellion or
challenge the established order. This creates a self-fulfilling prophecy, as the inability to express
certain ideas reinforces the notion that such concepts don't exist, further solidifying the Party's
control and hindering the potential for critical thinking, questioning, and individual growth.

2. Analyze the significance of the concept of "doublethink" in the novel. How does it contribute to
the control of the population by the Party?

Answer: Doublethink, the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs simultaneously, is crucial for the
Party's control. It allows them to manipulate language and reality, as individuals are forced to accept
 and believe whatever the Party dictates, even if it contradicts their own observations or experiences.
This creates confusion, hinders independent thought, and ultimately ensures the population's
conformity to the Party's ideology.
3. Discuss the ending of the novel. What message does it convey about the possibility of resistance
and the nature of individual freedom under totalitarian rule?
Answer: The ending of 1984 is bleak. Winston's spirit is broken, his love for Julia destroyed, and he
fully embraces the Party's ideology. This conveys the immense power of the Party's manipulation
and the difficulty of individual resistance in a totalitarian state. However, the ending can also be
interpreted as showcasing the ultimate price of complete conformity and the loss of one's true self. It
raises a haunting question about whether the individual's spirit can ever be truly conquered, even
when forced to comply with the regime.

4. Following are the broad questions containing 10 marks each:

1. What are the different components that the Party uses to obtain and maintain power and
control over the people in Oceania? Which one is the most effective one?

Ans: (The students can describe in their own words and elaborate).
The Party maintains its power primarily through language, technology, fear, and isolation, sexual
repression. The Party controls the citizens of Oceania in 1984 by keeping them busy with work
and committees, discouraging them from forming real relationships, and constantly censoring
them. Additionally, the Party keeps people from forming sophisticated or original thoughts by
limiting the number of words they can use, terror and psychological manipulation denies people
their individuality and humanity. The Party controls everything in Oceania; telescreens watch
people’s every move, while posters of their omniscient leader Big Brother loom over them.
The most effective tool they use is sexual repression. The party believes that if people are not
loyal to each other through this bond, that they will be forever loyal to the party.

2. Why is it necessary for Oceania to be engaged in perpetual war? Why does Oceania’s enemy
and ally constantly change? Discuss whether you believe that Oceania is truly, constantly at war.

Ans: It is necessary for the people of Oceania to believe that Oceania is in a constant state of
warfare with the other superpowers, because the presence of a common enemy prevents
internal conflict. Having a constant war also helps to spread fear and control the Oceanians
which forces them to stay loyal. They are made to celebrate and win in the frontlines as if it had
impacted their own personal lives when in reality no one truly knows if the war actually exists.
Oceania’s enemy and ally constantly change because the truth is constantly being redefined by
the ruling party in 1984. Changing the enemy keeps the lower class in a state of constant
confusion and anyone who remembers or challenges who the current enemy is can be arrested
for thought crime.
Discussions may vary.

3. What is your idea about a totalitarian state? Discuss the state of Oceania in George Orwell’s
‘1984’ as a totalitarian state.

Ans: A totalitarian state is ruled by a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial
and requires complete subservience to the state. Students will answer in their own words about
what they understand about a totalitarianism and how the ruling party of Oceania rules under a
totalitarian regime.
Oceania in Orwell's 1984 exemplifies a dystopian totalitarian state. The Party, led by the enigmatic
Big Brother, holds absolute control over every aspect of life. They manipulate history through the
Ministry of Truth, suppress individual thought through Thought Police and Newspeak, and control
emotional expression through telescreens and the Two Minutes Hate. Fear, ignorance, and
doublethink are used as tools for complete control, leaving individuals powerless and submissive,
with no space for dissent or freedom of thought.

4. Winston and Julia vowed to be privately loyal to each other, so why did they ultimately betray
the other? Do you think their betrayal mean that their love wasn’t genuine to begin with?

Ans: Winston and Julia are captured by the Thought Police at the height of their relationship – at
the point when they professed their undying private loyalty to each other – because that
constitutes the ultimate form of rebellion against the Party. Although Winston is subjected to
excruciating physical torture for a prolonged time, his spirit is ultimately broken by the
psychological torture he suffers. Julia betrays Winston easily upon being tortured because she is
essentially a survivalist; Winston, on the other hand, does not give up until the very end because
he is a natural-born rebel.
Second part is open-ended.

5. How is Julia’s form of rebellion different than Winston’s hopes for a rebellion? Who do you
think, if any of the two, has the right way of rebelling?

Ans: Julia’s form of rebellion is private compared to Winston’s dream of a large-scale rebellion.
Julia is a free-spirited mid-20’s woman who opposes the Party, but in subtle ways through her
love affair with protagonist Winston. She is the type of rebel who sleeps around for her own
fulfillment or for rebellious reasons. By having a relationship that is not condoned by the Party
with someone else who despises the Party, Julia is breaking the rules imposed by Oceania, which
gives her more pleasure than anything else.

Winston is restless, philosophical, and concerned about large-scale social issues who longs to join
the Brotherhood and read Emmanuel Goldstein’s abstract manifesto; is more concerned with
enjoying sex and making practical plans to avoid getting caught by the Party. Winston thinks that
hope lies with the proles because they make up the majority of Oceania’s population and are
the only group that could summon enough force to overthrow the Party. Paranoid but fanciful,
Winston imagines an encounter with O’Brien that might deepen their rebellious tie. Winston
starts a journal of rebellious thoughts as a first step towards his eventual fate at the Ministry of
Love.