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edMe Reading Companion app for The Great Gatsby(TM). It has high-quality formative questions to ensure that your student gets the most out of this great book.

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Question #8

O'Brien says that it is time for Winston to "take the last step". What does he say the last step is?





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

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Question #5

In the end, Winston feels greatly relieved: "Two gin–scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."

What does"trickled"mean?





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Question #10

Winston knows he has committed "the essential crime that contained all others in itself". What crime is he referring to?





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Question #7

The messages that Winston receives to work on use many words of "Newspeak", which is the language of the Party. What is the Party's name for standard English?





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Question #4

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?





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Question #2

Members of the Party were meant not have any spare time. "It was assumed that when he was not working, eating, or sleeping he would be taking part in some kind of communal recreation: . . ."

What does"communal"mean?





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You made it to the end! Here is your feedback for "Part II Chapter 3"

Think about what strategies worked (and didn't work) for you this time. How can you do well next time?

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Question #6

Winston observed that "In some ways [Julia]was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda."

What does"susceptible"mean?