Upstairs from the antiques shop is a cozy room, filled with antiques and without a telescreen Winston briefly considers the possibility of renting the room but knows it to be "a wild, impossible notion". What does "notion"mean?

At long last, Winston learns the girl's name. What is it?

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

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?

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.)

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?

The book explains that in a particular way of looking at things, War is Peace, because "The effect would be much the same if the three super–states, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries."

What does"perpetual"mean?

What is the main idea of this chapter?

The poet Ampleforth is led into the white–tiled room, and Winston decides that "He must speak to Ampleforth, and risk the yell from the telescreen. It was even conceivable that Ampleforth was the bearer of the razor blade."

What does"conceivable"mean?

The prisoners are kept in a state of dreadful unknowing: "Winston's entrails contracted. Soon, very soon, perhaps in five minutes, perhaps now, the tramp of boots would mean that his own turn had come."

What does"contracted"mean?

Winston's neighbor, Parsons is brought into the cell. He, too, is terrified, but feels differently about being arrested than Winston or Ampleforth: "The tone of his voice implied at once a complete admission of his guilt and a sort of incredulous horror that such a word could be applied to himself. "

What does"implied"mean?

Parsons' daughter has turned him in for committing Thought Crime. He was talking in his sleep. What did he say that was criminal?

Another prisoner is led into the white–tiled room. It is apparent that he is being starved to death: "Because of its thinness the mouth and eyes looked disproportionately large, and the eyes seemed filled with a murderous, unappeasable hatred of somebody or something."

What does"disproportionately"mean?

Winston thinks of Julia: " 'If I could save Julia by doubling my own pain, would I do it? Yes, I would.' But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it. He did not feel it."

What does"intellectual"mean?

When O'Brien comes into the white–tiled room, Winston cries out, "They've got you too!" and O'Brien answers him: 'They got me a long time ago,' said O'Brien with a mild, almost regretful irony."

What does"irony"mean?

After the guard hits Winston on the elbow with the truncheon, "One question at any rate was answered." What does Winston now believe is the worst thing in the world?

After making Winston look at himself in the mirror, O'Brien asks, "Can you think of a single degradation that has not happened to you?" What does Winston answer?

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Explaining the torture methods of Room 101, O'Brien explains, "By itself,' he said, 'pain is not always enough. There are occasions when a human being will stand out against pain, even to the point of death. But for everyone there is something unendurable —— something that cannot be contemplated."

What does"contemplated"mean?