Winston worries that the girl with the dark hair is a member of the Thought Police and becomes uneasy when he notices that she is watching him: "She was looking at him in a sidelong way, but with curious intensity."

What does"intensity"mean?

Winston's neighbor, Parsons, is also in the canteen. He tells Winston stories about his children, of whom he is proud. He calls them, "Keen as mustard."

What does"keen"mean?

Were there any words that you did not know?
You can always list them here.

What do you think will happen in the next chapter?
(This is just a spot for you to jot some notes for yourself.)

What is the main idea of this chapter?

While eating lunch in the canteen, Winston is approached by a man named Syme. What project is Syme working on?

Syme is reducing the number of words in the Newspeak dictionary. For example, he does not see any justification for opposites and synonyms. He thinks "Ungood" and "Plusgood" are better than "bad" or "excellent" because they are less vague. What does "justification"mean?

While Winston is in the canteen, an announcement comes over the telescreen. The announcement describes "…spontaneous demonstrations when workers marched out of factories and offices and paraded through the streets . . ."

What does"spontaneous"mean?

Winston worries that the girl with the dark hair is a member of the Thought Police and becomes uneasy when he notices that she is watching him: "She was looking at him in a sidelong way, but with curious intensity."

What does"intensity"mean?

Winston's neighbor, Parsons, is also in the canteen. He tells Winston stories about his children, of whom he is proud. He calls them, "Keen as mustard."

What does"keen"mean?

Were there any words that you did not know?
You can always list them here.

What is the main idea of this chapter?

In Winston's mind the smell of perfume was "inextricably mixed up" with his experience with the prostitute, because women in the Party never wore perfume. What does "inextricable"mean?

Winston explains that "the Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it."

What does"distort"mean?

Winston explains that the women of the Party have had their natural feelings about sex driven out of them "by careful early conditioning, by games and cold water, by the rubbish that was dinned into them at school and in the Spies . . ."

What does"conditioning"mean?

Winston wrote about the prostitute in his diary as a means of therapy, hoping it would help him to block out the tormenting memory. Did the therapy work?

Please enter the first three words of a sentence that shows your answers is correct.