The ballerinas wear sash weights and bags of birdshot so that they will not be more ____________ than anyone else.
(What is) graceful
100
How does the Handicapper General feel about competition?
(What is) it can turn people against one another
100
What is the main idea of "The Pedestrian"?
(What is) technology deadens feelings and life in people
100
Definition: occurring at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady.
(What is) intermittent
100
Definition: obstacles; things that prevent activity
(What are) hindrances
200
George is required to wear an ear radio to make him less
(What is) smart
200
What is Vonnegut's purpose or point of view?
(What is) by striving for equality, we could lose sight of what makes us individuals
200
The setting of "The Pedestrian" is a city resembling
(What is) Los Angeles in 2053
200
Definition: to decline or decay; fade away; lessening
(What is) ebbing
200
Definition: Causing to occur at the same time
(What is) synchronizing
300
Why does Mead agree that writing is not a profession?
(What is) he no longer earns a living from writing
300
Why does Harrison claim that he is the emperor
(What is) that he believes his individuality makes him great.
300
In the opening paragraph, Mead peers "down long moonlight avenues of sidewalk". As the story proceeds, the emotion of the description shifts from________________ to _________________.
(What is) oddly familiar to definitely chilling
300
Definition: backward reasoning or thinking
(What is) regressive
300
Definition: Balanced arrangement
(What is) symmetry
400
Why is there only one police car left in the city?
(What is) there is almost no crime anymore
400
What idea is being satirized in the story?
(What is) equality (i.e. we should all be equal)
400
what kind of mood or atmosphere does the setting suggest?
What is eerie and surreal
400
Definition: exceptionally clean or neat.
(What is) antiseptic
400
Definition: Crouching in fear
(What is) cowered
500
Something that everyone else in Mead's city enjoys that he does not is
(What is) watching television
500
This character totally succumbed to government manipulation, believing that if things change, society would fall apart?
(Who is) George
500
If the story were set in France instead of the US, what would happen?
(What is) American readers would not so easily identify the story with their own country