The Author
Literary Elements
Characters
The Plot
Setting
100
This was the occupation of Ayn Rand's father before the Communist victory in Russia.
What is a pharmacist?
100
Anthem is written in this type of form.
What is a diary, or a journal?
100
This artistic character makes men laugh, and is the first to know of Equality's secret place.
Who is International 4-8818?
100
Equality's story really begins after he discovers this.
What is an underground tunnel?
100
This is the type of world, or society, that Anthem is set in.
What is a dystopia?
200
This is the age at which Rand left Russia to settle in America.
What is 25?
200
Rand uses this point of view in the novella.
What is the first-person plural?
200
These people, first mentioned in Chapter 2, are despised by Equality's society.
Who are The Evil Ones?
200
Equality commits a second form of this when he meets Liberty 5-3000.
What is the transgression of preference?
200
This is where Equality lives after he is given his Life Mandate.
What is the Home of the Street Sweepers?
300
Ayn Rand rejects this because she believes it to be the complete opposite of reason.
What is faith/mysticism/religion?
300
Rand uses this as a symbol of the unknown since no one in Equality's society appears to go there willingly. (DOUBLE JEOPARDY)
What is the Uncharted Forest?
300
The oldest member of the World Council of Scholars, he is the first to condemn Equality 7-2521. (DOUBLE JEOPARDY)
Who is Collective 0-0009?
300
After seeing a dead frog move, Equality realizes that he has discovered this new power.
What is electricity?
300
Citizens at this age are considered seniors and this is the place they go to die. (DOUBLE JEOPARDY)
What is 45 and the Home of the Useless?
400
This is Ayn Rand's philosophy, which describes that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or rational self-interest.
What is Objectivism?
400
This is the main theme of Anthem, which runs throughout the entire novella.
What is individualism?
400
Equality knows that there is a lost word, which people are forbidden to speak. This man discovered it and was burned alive as punishment.
Who is the Saint of the Pyre?
400
During this event all books and members of the past society were killed or burned. (DOUBLE JEOPARDY)
What is The Great Rebirth?
400
This is considered Home for the Golden One.
What is The Home of the Peasants?
500
Ignorance and Knowledge, Light and Dark, Sin and Damnation are labeled as these in this novella. (DOUBLE JEOPARDY)
What are the three main motifs?
500
These are the three main forms of conflict which appear in this novella.
What is man vs. self, man vs. society and man vs. nature?
500
This half-brained character is accepted by Equality's society.
Who is Union 5-3992?
500
All of the following are aspects of Equality's new life in the forest except? A. freedom to travel and make decisions B. love C. leadership over the men of his village D. acquisition of knowledge. (DOUBLE JEOPARDY)
What is C. leadership over the men of his village?
500
From things Equality has found in his tunnel, he suspects that the people of this period must have also had knowledge of this strange power.
What are The Unmentionable Times?