Dystopian Literature Quiz

What does "dystopia" mean?

• a story set in a historical time period

• a story about a futuristic world that is far from perfect

• a story about a futuristic world that is perfect

• a story about a past world that is not idea.

In a dystopian story, a government that forces the people to work would be

• It restricts individual rights

• It allows people to use advanced technology

• It pays people fairly for their work

• It is a republic.

A repressive government holds people down by restricting access to:

• television

• entertainment

• education

• propoganda

Keeping people hooked to technology in a virtual reality would serve the repressive government's need to keep people:

• happy

• asleep

• occupied

• isolated

In a dystopia, the government instills ________ to keep people under its control.

• love

• peace

• fear

• rights

Choosing children to participate in the Hunger Games is the a repressive government's ultimate form of ____________.

• futuristic ideals

• punishment

• reward

• hope

What tool is being employed by the government by rewarding food to the winning colony?

• hope

• fear

• punishment

• isolation

The showmanship and the games being televised is another way a repressive government controls its people using their punishment as a form of ____________.

• access to them

• education

• entertainment

• channel surfing

Suzanne Collins, the author of "The Hunger Games" was inspired to write this dystopian novel by

• her love of myths, specifically, The Myth of Thesus

• Channel surfing between a game show and a program about teenagers fighting in war

• Participating in a game show as a teenager

• Watching her father fight in war

Unlike a dystopia, a utopia is

• a perfect world

• a sub genre of non-fiction

• a true story

• in the category of oral traditions