TED Ed - How to recognize a dystopia

What does "dystopia" literally mean?

• distant place

• not-good place

• non-existent place

• Babylon

Of these dystopian works, which was written earliest?

• The Iron Heel

• Brave New World

• Gulliver's Travels

• The Hunger Games

Which of these events was NOT a major influence on dystopian fiction?

• The Protestant Reformation

• The Industrial Revolution

• World War II

• Word War I

What was disturbing about the future world of "The Time Machine"?

• a nuclear apocalypse rendering the world barely habitable

• Economic inequality resulting in separate species of humans

• Time travel destroying the fabric of the universe

• England rules the world

What was Orwell trying to critique in his novel "1984"?

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Propaganda

• Ayn Rand

What Greece philosopher imagined a utopia, perfect society, "ruled by philosopher kings"?

• Plato

• Socrates

• Ayn Rand

• Sophocles

Who wrote a book from 1516, titled "Utopia"?

• Thomas Moore

• St. Thomas Aquinas

• Jonathan Swift

• an unknown Greek author

According to this TED Ed, the spread of industrial technology promised to free workers, but instead

• imprisoned them.

• promoted them.

• educated them.

• enlightened them.

In the dystopian novel, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, humans are genetically engineered and conditioned for

• social roles

• certain sports positions

• violent wars

• socialist regimes

In real-life dystopias, life is constantly observed by

• the state

• Adolf Hitler

• Bigger Brother

• one's parents