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WorksheetsACADEC Lit 23-24
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The Chemical Wedding,
Symzonia requires the reader to believe in pseudo-
science—in this case that _____
the earth is hollow
astrology
homeopathy
astral travel
The tongue-in-cheek
label “steampunk” first appeared in a letter by the
American author
Roger Zelazny
Ursula K. Le Guin
William Gibson
Keven Jeter
George Orr is so named as the author’s nod to ______
George Ortiz, Le Guin's inspiration, who wrote The Invisible Man
George
Orwell, the dystopian novelist who wrote 1984
George R.R. Martin, who wrote Song of Fire and Ice
George Maxwell, a famous science fiction writer
The threat of human-created machines
turning on their creators is at the heart of what movie?
The Day the Earth Stood Still
2001: A Space Odyssey
Metropolis
The Machine
At the end of the Lathe of Heaven, Lelache picks up what tool in the store operated by E’nememen Asfah, where Orr has been working as a designer?
Electric Mixer
Egg Whisk
Metal Spoon
Baking Spatula
What is the children's version of Ishi in Two
Worlds (1961) by Theodora Kroeber?
Ishi, the Boy Lost Between Worlds
Ishi, Last of His Tribe (1964)
Grand Leader Ishi (1964)
Last Alive, Ishi (1964)
Which is NOT one of the 7 integral themes in the Lathe of Heaven?
the struggle with self-doubt and fragile masculinity
the enduring problem of warfare
the power of
friendship and love
issues of
racism, immigration, and xenophobia
George Orr’s belief system tilts toward _____
Utilitarianism
Daoism or Confucianism
Taoism or Buddhism
Western rationalism
Who pioneered the use of electroencephalography in
1924?
Hans Berger
Ian Oswald
Ernest Hartmann
Carl Gustav Jung
Orr is always some kind of draftsman; his apartment is
always on Corbett Avenue.
True
False
Ennbe Ennbe gives Orr
a gift: an antique 45 RPM Beatles record of the song ______
Here Comes the Sun
Hey Jude
Come Together
With a Little Help From My Friends
What is the setting for Le Guin’s 1985 novel Always Coming
Home?
Future Oregon
Napa Valley
Post-Apocalyptic California
Mars
Rappaccini's Daughter: Name all three of the
men who have used Beatrice for their own ends
Lorenzo, Mattia, Rappaccini
Antonio, Luigi, and Rappaccini
Giuseppe, Rappaccini, and Tommaso
Ambrose Bierce’s most acclaimed work
is ______
The Satan's Lexicon
The Devil’s Dictionary
I Sing the Body Electric: Who turns the key to wake up Grandma?
Agatha
Agatha, Tim, and Tom
Tim
Tom
Octavia Butler remains the only SF writer to receive what
grant?
Nobel Prize in Literature Grant
Pulitzer Prize Grant
National Book Award Grant
MacArthur Genius Grant
Snow: the Wasp sent about _____ hours
of Georgie to The Park to be stored in her personal
chamber
nine thousand
seven thousand
eight thousand
eleven thousand
What does C.L. stand for in C.L. Moore's name?
Charlotte Lillian
Catherine Lucille
“The Mushroom Hunters” went on to win the ______ award for best long poem
Bollingen
Rhysling
Ruth Lilly Poetry
In her sonnet “Relativity,”
Sarah Howe was speaking directly to
the astrophysicist _______
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Barbara A. Williams
Carl Sagan
