File #001
What is the full name of the author of the book we will be reading?
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Which country implemented a one-child policy?
China
Someone who abstains from eating meat is a...
vegetarian
What type of government will we be reading about?
Totalitarian
A book genre that presents as an ideal society but, in reality, is miserable.
Dystopian
Who is this author's primary audience?
Young adults
China experienced a _______________, which led to conversations about overpopulation.
famine
Someone who abstains from eating any animal products at all is a...
vegan
List one of the three historic examples given of a totalitarian government.
Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, Kim Jong Un's North Korea
What is the opposite of dystopian?
Utopian
True or false: this author has books that have been translated into more than twenty different languages.
True
The Chinese government used _________________ to make citizens agree with their policy.
propaganda
Vegetarianism was most likely first practiced in connection with...
religion/religious rituals
True or false: in totalitarianism, the state controls every aspect of public life but leaves the private lives of citizens alone.
False
War, disease, natural disaster, government, external threats
Which state did this author grow up and go to college in?
Ohio
In what year did the one-child policy become a two-child policy?
2015 or 2016
There were three religions listed that believe that it is wrong to kill animals for meat. What is one of those three?
Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism
_____________________ is used to shape the public's belief systems, share the government's ideology, and maintain the leader's cult of personality.
Propaganda
True or false: oftentimes, a dystopian protagonist will come from a wealthy, comfortable family in the universe.
False
How many children does this author have?
2
What example was given as for why a family might be provided an exception to the one child rule?
Farming/rural families who had a girl for their first child
In what year (give or take a decade) was the Vegetarian Society founded?
1847
What term, beginning with S, is defined as the monitoring, recording, and spying on private citizens to ensure their loyalty to the government and their obedience of the rules?
Surveillance
Suzanne Collins wrote a dystopian series which became a movie franchise. Name that book series!
The Hunger Games