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What do you think will happen in the next chapter?
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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?

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What is the main idea of this chapter?

What percentage of Oceania's population is made up of proles (people not belonging to the Party)?

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

Once Winston had witnessed a mob of women proles gathered around the market stall of a vendor selling saucepans. Some "…clamoured round the stall, accusing the stall–keeper of favouritism and of having more saucepans somewhere in reserve."

What does"reserve"mean?

Winston reflects, "The Party claimed, of course, to have liberated the proles from bondage."

What does"liberated"mean?

Winston has borrowed a children's history book from Mrs. Parsons. Reading it, he thinks, "It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy."

What does"literally"mean?

Winston "wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one."

What does"minority"mean?

At the end of this chapter, Winston feels his courage rise. He understands, at last, for whom he is writing the diary. Who is that?

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