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Question 19
In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, what is Room 101 principally a place of?
rest
fun
humiliation
torture
Answer and explanation
D: torture
Room 101 confronts prisoners with their most terrifying fear to break their resistance. Torture is therefore the precise function, while humiliation describes only one possible effect.
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Question 27
Why does Othello kill Desdemona?
Othello is jealous
Othello’s race is insulted
Desdemona is a witch
Desdemona is an idol
Answer and explanation
A: Othello is jealous
Iago’s deception convinces Othello that Desdemona has been unfaithful, and jealous suspicion drives the killing. The play establishes neither witchcraft nor an insult by her to his race as the cause.