WorksheetsTED Ed - How to recognize a dystopia
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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
