Q 01/05

Which satire preceded Nineteen Eighty-Four?

A) Burmese Days

B) Animal Farm

C) Homage to Catalonia

D) A Clergyman's Daughter

Answer · why

B) Animal Farm

Animal Farm was turned down by several publishers, T. S. Eliot among them, before it appeared in 1945. Its success made Orwell's name, and the dystopi...

Q 02/05

What is the name of Nineteen Eighty-Four's protagonist?

A) Tom Parsons

B) Ampleforth

C) Winston Smith

D) Comrade Ogilvy

Answer · why

C) Winston Smith

Winston Smith begins his revolt by opening a diary. Nothing is illegal, since there are no longer any laws, yet he expects death or 25 years in a labo...

Q 03/05

What has Great Britain been renamed in Nineteen Eighty-Four?

A) Airstrip One

B) Landing Zone Alpha

C) Outpost Britannia

D) Sector Seven

Answer · why

A) Airstrip One

Airstrip One is no longer a country at all, only the third most populous province of a superstate. The hero recalls it was once England or Britain, th...

Q 04/05

Which superstate is home to Nineteen Eighty-Four's protagonist?

A) Eurasia

B) Oceania

C) Eastasia

D) Atlantica

Answer · why

B) Oceania

Oceania takes in the Americas, the British Isles, Australasia and southern Africa. It is always at war with one of its two rivals, and whenever the en...

Q 05/05

What is the Party's ruling ideology called in Nineteen Eighty-Four?

A) Newthink

B) Partycracy

C) Goodthink

D) Ingsoc

Answer · why

D) Ingsoc

Ingsoc is short for 'English Socialism'. Orwell wrote as a democratic socialist himself, and meant the Party's creed as a perversion of the ideals he ...