1984 Part 2: Chapters 5-10 Qs
Please answer on a separate sheet of paper, and attach this sheet to the front. 

1.	What happens to Syme? Why is this important?
2.	In the course of Chapter 5, why and how does Winston change?
3.	Between what two contrasting points of view regarding their situation do Winston and Julia swing?
4.	What is the reason Winston believes that O’Brien has talked to him in chapter 6?
5.	What are his feelings about this as the chapter opens?
6.	In Chapter 7, Winston has another dream about his mother. What does he realize from this dream? How did his mother and father die? What is the significance of chocolate in this memory/dream?
7.	What does Winston realize is the effect of the Party on impulses and emotions? Why does he say the proles are human beings?
8.	What does he decide is the one thing that matters for him and Julia? How does that one thing relate to confessing?
9.	What important event takes place in Chapter 8?
10.	Describe O’Brien’s apartment and some of the privileges he has as an inner party member:
11.	O’Brien can be described as inscrutable in this scene. Find a quote to support this idea:
12.	What does O’Brien ask if they'd be willing to do? What is the one thing they say they cannot do?
13.	What is the first thing that Winston can expect to receive as part of his initiation into "the Brotherhood"?
14.	Why is Winston so tired at the beginning of chapter 10? What has he and all his colleagues in the Ministry of Truth had to do?
15.	Where does he go after his work is done? What does he take with him?

The Book

16. Why is the ongoing war between the three superstates never decisive?
17. What is the reason for perpetual war?
18. What is the basis for a hierarchical society? 
19. Apart from the necessary material destruction what psychological benefit does war also have?
20. Are the conditions of life essentially the same in all three superstates? What is the philosophy of government called in each?
21. What has been the organization of society ever since the beginning of historic time?
22. Why have ruling parties in the past fallen from power? (Hint: there are 4 ways)
23. Is membership in the party hereditary?
24. Earlier in the book, Winston says he understands how the past is changed, but not why. In The Book we get an explanation--what is it?

25. What happens in Chapter 10? Describe in detail.