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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 #2

While Winston waits for Julia to meet him in the rented room, he listens to a woman outside the window singing. He knows that "…the words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator," but the woman makes it sound much better than it really is. What does "intervention"mean?





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Question #9

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.)

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Question #5

Reflecting on the memories of his mother and the time before the Revolution, Winston sees the proles in a new light: "For the first time in his life he did not despise the proles or think of them merely as an inert force which would one day spring to life and regenerate the world. The proles had stayed human."

What does"regenerate"mean?





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Question #3

The book explains that there have long been three kinds of people in the world: the High, the Middle, and the Low. The book says that "The aims of these groups are entirely irreconcilable…"

What does"irreconcilable"mean?





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Feedback

You made it to the end! Here is your feedback for "Part III Chapter 1"

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 insists that there is something at work in the universe that will prevent the Party from achieving its goals, but O'Brien believes otherwise: "You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable."

What does"malleable"mean?





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Question #2

Winston's apartment building is not well maintained: "Repairs, except what you could do for yourself, had to be sanctioned by remote committees which were liable to hold up even the mending of a window–pane for two years."

What does"sanctioned"mean?





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Question #5

During the morning exercise period, Winston struggles to recreate scenes from his childhood. He remembers his family seeking shelter from an air raid, after which "…war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. What does "literally"mean?