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Dystopian Vocabulary

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Odysseus, the hero in The Odyssey, as a perfect example of a classic ________________.

a)

character foil

b)

archetype

c)

figurehead

d)

symbol

2.

The grading system represents a huge ______________ problem in American education.

a)

systemic

b)

individualism

c)

perception

d)

propaganda

3.

College scholarships are too often based on financial _______________. If your family makes too much money, most scholarships are unavailable to you.

a)

allusion

b)

conformity

c)

perception

d)

discrimination

4.

Lots of people have doorbell cameras to provide ______________________ of what happens outside their front doors.

a)

symbolism

b)

surveillance

c)

utopia

d)

discrimination

5.

Three different people can watch the same event happen, but they can all have a different ________________ of why it happened.

a)

perception

b)

allusion

c)

propaganda

d)

individualism

6.

The bald eagle is an example of the ____________________ of American freedom.

a)

surveillance

b)

figurehead

c)

bureaucratic

d)

symbolism

7.

The professor made an _______________________ to Mona Lisa when lecturing on enigmatic characters in literature.

a)

antagonist

b)

apocalypse

c)

allusion

d)

archetype

8.

Often in literature, the _____________________ of the story is the character his or herself because they are fighting an internal battle.

a)

protagonist

b)

antagonist

c)

symbolism

d)

archetype

9.

As students move into higher grades and read more complex texts, the ___________________ is no longer always the good guy.

a)

figurehead

b)

archetype

c)

protagonist

d)

antagonist

10.

The students were on their way to ________________________ when the school decided to require uniforms.

a)

utopia

b)

dystopia

c)

revolution

d)

discrimination

11.

After the tornado hit, the town looked like it had survived an _________________________.

a)

apocalypse

b)

antagonist

c)

archetype

d)

allusion

12.

Teachers are leaving their jobs because there is too much ______________________ busy work and not enough time for teaching students.

a)

perception

b)

bureaucratic

c)

propaganda

d)

discrimination

13.

The boring curriculum sucked all of the ________________________ out of most of the students because they could not be creative and didn't have any choice in their assignments.

a)

symbolism

b)

individualism

c)

conformity

d)

surveillance

14.

The teacher wasn't interested in student individualism; she only wanted ________________________.

a)

perception

b)

surveillance

c)

propaganda

d)

conformity

15.

The dog ate my shoes and was _______________________ outside.

a)

dehumanized

b)

banished

c)

symbolized

d)

conformed

16.

In WWII, the Nazis used terror and cruelty because their victims were ________________.

a)

antagonists

b)

systemic

c)

banished

d)

dehumanized

17.

The prime minister had no real power; he was a _________________________.

a)

protagonist

b)

antagonist

c)

figurehead

d)

archetype

18.

The lack of professional journalism that polices itself for bias results in _________________ from news media outlets.

a)

propaganda

b)

revolution

c)

dehumanization

d)

allusion

19.

The serenity of the lake house was her _____________.

a)

discrimination

b)

individualism

c)

utopia

d)

dystopia

20.

When the pandemic hit, people felt like they were living in authentic _________________.

a)

apocalypse

b)

dystopia

c)

banishment

d)

utopia