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WorksheetsFinal Q4 Test
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 3600secs
Why is being "alone together" discouraged in the Ford Society?
Being alone can lead to depression and anxiety and lead to suicide and loss of workers.
Being alone can lead to the fortnight dance.
Being alone can lead to intimate relationships which might make an individual more important than the community.
Being alone can lead to premarital relations and it goes against Ford's teachings.
What statement best fits Bernard's view on friendship?
Friends are a dime a dozen, easy come, easy go.
Friends should be there to support you at all times, unless you are acting crazy.
You can't kill your enemies, but you can take your anger out on your friends.
You can't make friends in this world. You must live alone.
What color do the Betas wear?
Green
Grey
Khaki
Mulberry
How many copies can be made from a single Bokanovskified egg?
8-96
3-12
20-2000
10,000+
What is most likely the author’s reason for starting with a description of the building, from outside to inside?
He is developing the scene like Dickens would, or a film: establishing shot; interior.
The state of the society would be very hard to guess without a clear introduction.
He is taking us to a time in the distant future where everything is unfamiliar.
The entire novel takes place inside this building.
What is the central idea or theme of the excerpt below?
“Just to give you a general idea,” he would explain to them. For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently — though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
The society of the novel is guided by materialist and scientific values rather than intellectual or spiritual ones.
The students are only receiving some of the available information about the process.
The students are being encouraged to question the wisdom of eugenics.
Everyone in this future society collects stamps.
What does “A.F.” stand for in the calendar that the World State uses?
After Fitzgerald
After Ford
After the Fall
After Freedom
What is the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre?
A place where humans are created and incubated
A place where fish and other sea creatures are hatched
A scientific center for the study of outer space
An institute for the study of animals in the wild
What is the process by which an egg is shocked so that it becomes multiple identical embryos?
The Foster Process
The Eggcellent Process
The Epsilon Process
The Bokanovsky Process
The World State Process
Ford is worshipped in the new world society becuase...
He charged more for his cars than others so he made a bigger profit- the new world thrives on wealth
He produced the first car and moved scientific discovery forward
His assembly line represents efficiency and mass consumption
The assembly line taught the scientists to create exponential amounts of babies in test tubes
Lower caste embryos are treated with alcohol solution and traumatized. What does this represent?
Some people are born smarter and they deserve to be leaders of those who are born not as smart
Permanency of the social caste system and complete control of the lower classes
Intelligence is something that is assigned but in the new world society people can always work hard and move up
Once you have your grill assembled, the next thing to decide is where to put it. A grill puts out a lot of heat, so you should position it several feet away from the side of the house or any plants or shrubbery. You'll have an easier time with a spot that is sheltered from the wind. When positioning a grill on a wooden deck, remember that sparks and live embers can fall from a charcoal grill.
At dawn, Mae Tuck set out on her horse for the wood at the edge of the village of Treegap. She was going there, as she did once every ten years, to meet her two sons, Miles and Jesse, and she was feeling at ease. At noon time, Winnie Foster, whose family owned the Treegap wood, lost her patience at last and decided to think about running away.
And we scrounged. Next to survival, scrounge was probably the most important word in our new vocabulary. We found a store that was throwing out water-damaged mattresses. Getting them home was a problem, since we had to make two trips, leaving Brad and Katie, armed with sticks to guard over the remained. I truly expected them to be challenged by some gang boss, but they said that the only person who came by was a scrawny little rat of a girl living alone. We let her have one of the mattresses.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" So she was considering, in her own mind whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
In one of Aesop's fables, four animals go hunting under the assumption that they will split their prize equally, but the lion, the most powerful animal, takes more than the other members of the group.
What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?
My older brother takes the lion's share of the space in our bedroom.
an equal amount
a tiny bit
an even split
the largest portion
The comic book superhero Spider-Man possesses a spidey sense that warns him of impending trouble.
What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?
Luther picked up his pace on the trail as his spidey sense began to tingle.
sense of smell
sense of danger
sense of wonder
sense of pride
Who is the antagonist in dystopian literature?
the bad guy
the protagonist
society
nature
The Danger of Technology is an example of a theme from Dystopian novels. True or False?
True
False
Which example is not a characteristic of a dystopian society?
The natural world is banished or distrusted
The society is a perfect utopia
Citizens live a dehumanized state
Propaganda is used to control the citizens of a society
What is dystopian fiction?
A negative past world where things used to be bad
A negative future world entirely made up
A negative future world based on problems in human society today
A negative world that we live in today
Ironically, people in a dystopia...
fight for their rights
disbelieve propaganda
believe everything is perfect
want freedom
What is another way of describing a utopia?
scary world
friendly world
perfect world
unrealistic world
