Sci-Fi Assessment

What makes sci-fi different from other kinds of fiction?

• Sci-fi always has time-travelling aliens, spaceships and talking robots.

• Other genres are based on true events that happened in the past.

• Sci-fi contains unreal things that could be real in our world in the future.

Sci-fi can contain technologies or discoveries that could possibly happen in our world.

• True

• False

Science fiction often ...

• contains elements of magic, fantasy and unreal creatures.

• explores what goes wrong with tools and advancements.

• falls into the non-fiction category.

Science fiction is ONLY set in the future.

• True

• False

Sci-fi helps us think about ...

• how to make create technologies.

• how our choices affect the future.

• how to travel to space.

_______ is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes melodramatic adventure, interplanetary battles, chivalric romance, and risk-taking.

• Pulp

• Space opera

• Dystopian

• Pulp

________ is a science fiction sub-genre that "absorbs and discusses anthropology" and speculates about human behavior and interactions.

• Social

• Dystopian

• Africanfuturism

• Military

_______ is the sci-fi sub-genre where advanced technology exists before the discovery of electricity.

• Steampunk

• Gothic

• Speculative

• Time Travel

Is science "fiction" based on science "fact"?

• True

• False

By focusing not only on human, but non-human characters, sci-fi writers force us to consider

• what we even mean by the "human."

• distant worlds.

• how to alter the future or the past.

• how to overcome oppression.