GEORGE ORWELL
LIBERTY CLASSICS
PART ONE – CHAPTERS 1-4
1 1c – 2f – 3a – 4g – 5d – 6e – 7b
2 1c – 2i – 3f – 4a – 5g – 6b – 7h – 8e – 9d
1. grimy – battered; 2. filthy; 3. reek – rotting; 4. sordid – vile;
5. dingy – litter
3 Romantic authors: education: 4 – relationship parents-
children: 2 – entertainment: 7 – games: 1; 1984: education: 6 –
relationship parents-children: 5 – entertainment: 3 – games: 8
PART ONE – CHAPTERS 5-8
1 Newspeak – left his wife – big numbers – conscious of their
condition – picture – has only confused memories – his diary –
the dark-haired girl
2 personal
3 1T – 2F – 3T – 4F – 5F – 6T
Corrections: 2. His main job is destroying new words.
4. Winston believes the Proles will still understand Oldspeak
in 2050. - 5. Winston believes the Party will vaporise Syme.
PART TWO – CHAPTERS 1-7
1 Possible solutions: I love you – the canteen – Sunday
(afternoon) – the Thought Police – (real) chocolate – a
bird (singing) – corrupt (to the bones) – the Brotherhood /
rebelling – killing her – Mr Charrington’s shop – real food/
sugar, bread, tea and coffee – makeup (and perfume) – a copy
of the Newspeak Dictionary – disappeared – eaten his sister’s
chocolate
2 Flora: flowers (bluebells) – bushes – saplings; fauna: bird
(thrush); other natural elements: sun; food: chocolate – sugar –
bread – jam; drinks: milk – coffee – tea
personal
3
4 1T – 2T – 3F – 4F – 5F – 6T – 7F – 8T – 9T – 10F
Corrections: 3. She lives in a hostel with 30 other girls and
PART TWO – CHAPTERS 8-10
1 1f – 2c – 3h – 4a – 5d – 6b – 7j – 8e – 9g – 10i
2 1. a-d-e-f-i; 2.b-c-g-h
3 Possible answers: 1. Eurasia includes the northern part of
Europe and Asia, Oceania is made up of North and South
America, the Atlantic islands including the UK, Australia
and South Africa. Eastasia is smaller and includes China, the
countries below it, Japan, part of today’s Russia, Mongolia and
Tibet. - 2. War involves very small numbers of people, mostly
highly-trained specialists; battles are fought only at frontiers.
3. Because the super-states have the same power and have
strong natural defences; moreover each super-state has all
the raw materials it needs, there is no need to conquer others
in order to produce goods that are needed. - 4. Because they
contain important materials and especially because hundreds
of millions of poor people live there and can provide cheap
labour. - 5. On one hand all the wars impoverished societies,
1984
4 Possible solutions: doubleplusungood = terrible, awful –
fullwise = completely – bb = Big Brother – miniplenty = Ministry
of Plenty – upsub = submit to higher authority; personal
5 personal
6 personal
7 personal
4 1b – 2c – 3g – 4h – 5a – 6d – 7e – 8f
5 personal
6 1. Katherine – 2. Mrs Parson – 3. Katherine – 4. dark-haired
girl – 5. Mrs Parson
7 personal
enjoys her work at the Fiction Department even though she
doesn’t love reading. She worked at Pornosec in the past, for
one year. - 4. She had her first love affair when she was 16,
with a Party member who was 60 and committed suicide.
5. She is not interested in Party doctrine and doesn’t believe
the Brotherhood exists. - 7. She thinks it would have been
a good idea for Winston to kill his wife. - 10. She thought
Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia and isn’t
bothered about the Party’s lies.
5 1b-f; 2a-c-e; 3d
6 personal
7 personal
on the other hand totalitarianism stops the habit of thinking and
therefore progress. - 6. Because if lower-class people have good
economical conditions they will have enough time to study,
understand that they are being exploited and rebel against the
upper classes. - 7. It is important to give people the feeling that
the destruction of goods is necessary; it unites the population
by giving everybody a common enemy. - 8. To discover, against
their will, what other human beings are thinking, and to develop
a way to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds
without giving warning beforehand. - 9. Because the ruling
groups of all countries understood that a few more atomic
bombs would mean the end of organized society, and hence
of their own power. - 10. It is absolutely necessary for the
governments of the three super-states that there should be no
contact with foreigners, otherwise the people would discover
that foreigners are creatures similar to themselves and that most
of what they have been told about them is based on lies.
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LIBERTY CLASSICS 1984
4 Possible answers: 1. He speaks with no accent and in a sharp 5. He has an alert, cold face and is about thirty-five years old.
voice. - 2. He has got black hair and doesn’t wear glasses. 5 personal
3. His body is straight and large. - 4. His eyebrows are not
6 personal
bushy, he has no wrinkles and a short nose.

PART THREE, APPENDIX

1 the poet Ampleforth and Parsons – elbow – lies on a bed –
defective memory – past – kill – martyrs – write – Do this to
Julia – meet again
2 1F – 2E – 3F – 4F – 5E – 6E
3 Author: Milton – Brontë – Stevenson – Austen; Title:
Wuthering heights; Villain’s name: Long John Silver; Evil
because: he rebelled against God – he is arrogant, revengeful
and enjoys ruining people’s lives – he is a violent pirate
and a killer – he seduces young girls for economic reasons;
Fascinating because: he fights tyranny and defends freedom –
he loves Catherine deeply and manages to become very rich
although he was poor and uneducated – he is kind with Jim –
he is good-looking and acts as a gentleman
4 personal
5 personal
6 personal

EXTRA CONTENT by George Orwell – Politics and the English Language

1 Possible answers: in bad conditions – reversible – staleness – 2 a3 – b5 – c4 – d6 – e2 – f1
vagueness – dying – passive – gerunds – Latin – Greek – easy – 3 personal
politics – pacification – metaphors – active – break