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Test your knowledge of Nineteen Eighty-Four - quiz

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On the 66th anniversary of its publication, how much do you know about George Orwell's classic dystopia?
  1. 1.Complete the sentence: "It was a bright cold day in April and..."
  2. 2.What is the name given to "the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them"?
  3. 3.What is Winston's greatest fear, exploited by his torturers?
  4. 4.What does Winston scrawl in the dust on a table at the Chestnut Tree Cafe after his mind is broken?
  5. 5.Airstrip One, where the novel is set, is a province of which superstate?
  6. 6.Winston first meets Julia when she surreptitiously passes him a note. What does it say?
  7. 7.Who is the author of the heretical treatise about the history of the Party, The Theory of Oligarchical Collectivism?
  8. 8.Who wrote a tribute novel in response to Orwell's called 1985?
  9. 9.Where did the name Room 101 come from?
  10. 10.George Orwell was, said Eric Blair, "a good round English name". Which other pen name did he NOT consider?

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