24.

Part Two – Thoughtcrime: Chapter Five – A Politcal Act

What ‘strange mix of emotions’ does Winston feel when he sees the injured girl (Julia)?

When he sees the injured girl (Julia), Winston is torn between wanting to help her and fear of her because he is convinced that she is ‘an enemy’ who is ‘trying to kill him’.

25.

Why is Winston very brief when arranging to meet the girl (Julia)?

Winston is a brief as he can be when arranging to meet Julia because he wants to finish their conversation before Ampleforth sits down at his table.

26.

Why do Winston and the girl (Julia) go into the middle of a crowd when arranging to meet on ‘Sunday afternoon’?

Winston and Julia go into the middle of a crowd to arrange to meet on ‘Sunday afternoon’ in a bid to disguise their intimacy (‘her hand touched his’) and the details of their conversation from the Thought Police.

27.

What reason does the girl (Julia) give why the field is safe from the Thought Police?

Julia explains that the field is safe from the Thought Police because none of the trees surrounding it are ‘big enough to hide a microphone in’.

28.

“Julia reacts angrily when Winston tells her that he thought she was in the Thought Police.” True or False?

This statement is false: Julia is ‘pleased that she has hidden her true feelings so well’ when Winston tells her that he thought she was in the Thought Police.

29.

What does Julia say she finds attractive about Winston?

Julia says that it is the fact that there is something in Winston’s face which reveals that he is against the Party that attracts her to him.

30.

What is unusual about Winston’s view of the number of women Julia has slept with?

Surprisingly, Winston’s view of Julia’s sexual history is that the more men she has slept with, the more he loves her, since it means that she has transgressed against the Party to a greater extent.

31.

Part Two – Thoughtcrime: Chapter Six – They Can’t Get Inside You

Why does Winston persist in spending time with Julia in the room above Mr Charrington’s shop even though he knows it is foolish?

Winston continues to spend time with Julia in the room above Mr Charrington’s shop even though he knows it is foolish because he feels that he both needs and deserves her.

32.

How does Julia say that she got hold of the ‘good food’?

Julia says that she obtained the ‘good food’ from waiters and servants who stole it while working for the Inner Party.

33.

Why does Julia want to obtain ‘a real woman’s dress’?

Julia wants to get hold of ‘a real woman’s dress’ so that, when she is in the room above Mr Charrington’s shop with Winston, she can be ‘a woman, not Party comrade’.

34.

Why does Winston tell Julia ‘we are the dead’?

Winston says ‘we are the dead to Julia’ because they are disobeying the party by having a relationship and he believes that you are dead as soon as you disobey the party because doing so means that they will inevitably catch and punish you.

35.

Why does Julia say that ‘in some parts of London a woman daren’t leave a baby alone for two minutes’?

Julia says that ‘in some parts of London a woman daren’t leave a baby alone for two minutes’ because there are rats, which often attack children, everywhere.

36.

Part Two – Thoughtcrime: Chapter Seven – Our Leader, Emmanuel Goldstein

Why does Julia not think that Winston telling O’Brien that he is an enemy of the Party is a ‘wild idea’?

Julia does not think that Winston telling O’Brien that he is an enemy of the Party is such a ‘wild idea’ because she too judges people ‘by their faces’, so it makes sense to her that the look Winston sees in O’Brien’s eyes would make him believe in him.

37.

Why does Winston not say ‘Syme’ when O’Brien refers to him but says that he can’t remember his name?

Winston does not say ‘Syme’ when O’Brien refers to him but says that he can’t remember his name because Syme has been vaporized and the Party often kills people for talking about an unperson.

38.

Why does Winston regret bringing Julia when they enter O’Brien’s home?

Winston suddenly regrets bringing Julia with him when they enter O’Brien’s home because he realises that, if his beliefs about O’Brien turn out to be mistaken, he will not be able to pretend that ‘he had come only to borrow the dictionary’.

39.

What reason does O’Brien give why the amount of knowledge Winston and Julia will gain about Goldstein and the Brotherhood will be limited?

O’Brien explains that Winston and Julia will only be allowed to gain a very limited knowledge of the Brotherhood so that they will not be able to divulge much information about them to the Party when they are eventually captured and interrogated.

40.

Part Two – Thoughtcrime: Chapter Eight – Doublethink

How can we tell that Julia does not expect to understand Goldstein’s book?

We can tell that Julia does not expect to understand Goldstein’s book from the fact that she asks Winston to read it to her so that he can explain it to her as he goes along.

41.

What reason does Goldstein’s book give for equality between the ‘the High, the Middle and the Low’ becoming possible in the early twentieth century?

Goldstein’s book states that equality between the ‘the High, the Middle and the Low’ was possible in the early twentieth century because machines had developed to the extent that they could do most of the boring work previously done by the Low.

42.

How, according to Goldstein’s book, does the Party stop itself ‘from becoming stupid or weak’?

Goldstein’s book explains that the Party stops itself ‘from becoming stupid or weak’ by replacing Inner Party members who are weak with the cleverest and strongest members of the Outer Party.

43.

Give a definition of ‘the proles’.

The proles constitute the lowest level of the social structure in the world in which ‘1984’ is set, below the Outer Party: Goldstein’s book states that they make up ‘about 85% of the population’.

44.

According to Goldstein’s book, what does ‘Doublethink’ allow people to do?

Goldstein’s book states that ‘Doublethink’ allows people ‘to hold two different ideas in their head at the same time – and to accept both of them’: it is necessary for being able to live with a ‘changing reality, including a changing past’.

45.

‘The book had not told him anything he did not already know’. Does Goldstein’s book have any effect on Winston at all?

Yes, the fact that Goldstein’s book does not tell him anything knew confirms to Winston that he has not been going ‘mad’: it also make him feel safe and that ‘everything is alright’, allowing him to drift off to sleep.

46.

“The voice which emanates from the telescreen behind the painting in the room above Mr Charrington’s shop has a controlling power.” True or false?

This statement is true: the voice which comes from the telescreen in the room above Mr Charrington’s shop exerts a power over Winston and Julia which stops them trying to escape because they found it ‘unthinkable to disobey’.

47.

Part Three – Inside Winston Smith’s Head: Chapter Nine – Miniluv

What does Winston realise that the place ‘where there is no dark’ mentioned by O’Brien in his dream is?

Winston realises that the place ‘where there is no dark’ mentioned by O’Brien in his dream is the cell he is kept in in the Ministry of Love: ‘there is no dark’ because the bright lights are constantly on.

48.

Why is Ampleforth thrown into Winston’s cell?

Ampleforth is thrown into Winston’s cell for not changing the word ‘God’ in one of the poems he was working on, presumably since the Party don’t want anyone to think that there could be a higher authority than Big Brother.

49.

Why is Winston surprised when Parsons is thrown into his cell?

Winston is surprised when Parsons is thrown into his cell because he has always seen Parsons as an ardent supporter of the Party, someone who would never commit thoughtcrime.

50.

“Parsons is unrepentant about his thoughtcrime.” True or false?

This statement is false: Parsons is so repentant about his thoughtcrime that he admits that ‘it is a terrible thing’ and resolves to thank the Party for ‘saving’ him.

51.

About what does Winston change his mind drastically when he is attacked by the guard?

When the guard hits him on the elbow, Winston reverses his previous view that if Julia were in ‘and he could double his own pain to help her, he would do it’.