1. Complete the sentence: "It was a bright cold day in April and..."

   1. ...the clocks were striking thirteen.

   2. ...Big Brother was having breakfast.

   3. ...Hate Week was in full flow.

   4. ...Winston Smith was beginning his morning exercises.

2. What is the name given to "the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them"?

   1. Two-timing

   2. Doublethink

   3. Patriotism

   4. Wishthought

3. What is Winston's greatest fear, exploited by his torturers?

   1. Drowning

   2. Rats

   3. Toothache

   4. Scorpions

4. What does Winston scrawl in the dust on a table at the Chestnut Tree Cafe after his mind is broken?

   1. 2 + 2 = 5

   2. I love Big Brother

   3. Julia

   4. War is peace

5. Airstrip One, where the novel is set, is a province of which superstate?

   1. Oceania

   2. Atalantica

   3. Eurasia

   4. Uberworldia

6. Winston first meets Julia when she surreptitiously passes him a note. What does it say?

   1. I love you

   2. Down with Big Brother

   3. Can you get me some black-market cigarettes?

   4. Meet me in the woods tomorrow at twelve

7. Who is the author of the heretical treatise about the history of the Party, The Theory of Oligarchical Collectivism?

   1. Leon Trotsky

   2. O'Brien

   3. Big Brother

   4. Emmanuel Goldstein

8. Who wrote a tribute novel in response to Orwell's called 1985?

   1. Will Self

   2. Ursula K Le Guin

   3. Anthony Burgess

   4. Aldous Huxley

9. Where did the name Room 101 come from?

   1. Winston Churchill's war bunker

   2. A meeting room at the BBC

   3. Stalin's headquarters in the Kremlin

   4. Morse Code

10. George Orwell was, said Eric Blair, "a good round English name". Which other pen name did he NOT consider?

    1. PS Burton

    2. Henry Wiggins

    3. Kenneth Miles

    4. H Lewis Allways

Solutions

1:A, 2:B, 3:B, 4:A, 5:A, 6:A, 7:D, 8:C, 9:B, 10:B

Scores

1. 4 and above.

   As the Party says, Ignorance Is Strength.

2. 7 and above.

   Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

3. 10 and above.

   Big Brother is watching you.