Time to test your knowledge about dystopian fiction!!

Dystopias are usually set in...

• The present

• The future

• The past

• any time period

Margaret Atwood's The Handsmaid's Tale is an example of a...

• Utopia

• Post-apocalyptic dystopia

• Theocratic dystopia

• Technological dystopia

• Totalitarian dystopia

Dystopian fiction usually starts out looking like a UTOPIA, which is...

• An ancient society

• A society in which human beings live in harmony with nature

• An ideal society

• A society from an imaginary world, in a galaxy far, far away

Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of a dystopia?

• Constant surveillance and propaganda

• Violence, control and terror

• Chaos or extreme order

• Ugly imaginary monsters

• Restriction of freedom, individuality and information

What is usually the message of Dystopian stories?

• Chaos is awesome!

• To have faith in humanity

• To warn us about aspects of our present

• That critical thinking is useless

Which of the following is NOT a topic with which dystopias are concerned?

• The possibility of a dictatorship

• Nuclear or environmental cataclysms

• Technology enslaving humans

• Genetic engineering and eugenics

• Space travels

In dystopias, illusion of a perfect society can NOT be maintained by...

• Philosophical or religious control

• Magical control

• Corporate control

• Technological control

• Bureaucratic control

Which of these characteristics is NOT true about the dystopian PROTAGONIST?

• They often feel trapped and are struggling to escape.

• They question the existing social and political systems.

• They believe or feel that something is terribly wrong with the society in which he or she lives.

• They enjoy the society and try to preserve it even if they know it's oppressive and unfair to a lot of people.