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WorksheetsANTHEM - test
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Dystopia
An imagined place in which social or technological trends have culminated in a greatly diminished quality of life.
The concern with one’s own interests meaning that oneself, rather than others, is the proper beneficiary of one’s actions.
The central principle is the idea that each individual is responsible for his or her own life.
How does Equality 7-2521 figure out the meaning of an individual?
The Home of the Scholars explain it to him.
Through books at the house that he and The Golden One found.
He figures it out on his own.
What is the unspeakable word?
we
our
I
“Everything which comes from many is good...everything which comes from one is evil” is best classified as the following:
Collectivism
Individualism
The Great Rebirth
What was the reaction from the Home of the Scholars, when Equality 7-2521 presented his creation?
Overjoyed; impressed with what he has created.
Indifferent; really didn’t care about the work he did.
Terror struck; angry that he was working as one and not as a group.
What happened to the Transgressor for saying the “Unspeakable Word”?
His tongue was cut out, and burned alive.
He was banned from the community, and had to leave.
He was sentenced to the Palace of Corrective Detention.
What is a transgression?
a good deed
a job
a crime
What “curse” or “sin” was Equality 7-2521 born with ?
he is blind
he is smart
he is too short
Of the whole range of feelings possible to man, which is the most prevalent emotion to them in this society?
Joy
Excitement
Anger
Fear
After Equality escapes from jail, what does he experience for the first time?
Shame
Fear
Joy
Pain
Even though Equality hopes to be sent to the Home of the Scholars, what home is he assigned to by the Council of Vocations?
Carpenters
Street Sweepers
Peasants
Doctors
What happens when Equality refuses to explain why he is late returning to his assigned home?
He is questioned and tortured
He is sent to the Home of the Useless
He is given an earlier curfew
They investigate and find his tunnel
Where does Equality read, write, and conduct experiments?
A hidden subway tunnel
The Uncharted Forrest
The house on the mountain
The Home of the Students
Anthem is written in the form of...
a biography
a documentary
a diary or journal
an epic poem
Why does Equality rename himself Prometheus?
He took fire from the gods and gave it to man
He was a great hero of the Trojan War
He introduced democracy to the ancient Greeks
He appeared in the bible as a wise prophet
What was the Great Rebirth?
The time when children are born each year
The new society formed in the novel
When Equality discovers freedom
The new seasons of the year
The only transgression punishable by death is
Saying the word "I"
Being alone
Reading
Writing
What are the Unmentionable Times
Any time in the past
The Great Rebirth
When people are send to the Palace of Mating
The scientific age we live in today
Why does Equality 7-2521 decide to offer the World Council of Scholars the lightbulb?
he wants to help his brothers
he wants the World Council of Scholars to forgive him for not telling where he had been
he wants the World Council of Scholars to pay him for his invention
he wants to trade the lightbulb for a date with the Golden One
Equality 7-2521 believes the most important concept known to man is....
light
ego
silence
