SLANG & VOCAB
This is the name of the technology that is implanted in the characters' heads that allows them to access the internet at all times.
the feed
What character dies at the end of the book?
Violet
Where is Titus visiting for spring break?
The moon
What happens to Titus and his friends on the moon?
Their feeds are hacked.
What's the main conflict of Feed?
Person vs. technology
Person vs. self
What is the word for a flying car?
upcar
Who is the protagonist of the book?
Titus
What time period does the book take place during?
The future
Why doesn't Violet's father visit her in the hopsital on the moon?
He can't afford it.
What's the climax of Feed?
When Violet yells at everybody during the party and then her feed crashes.
The characters use this word to talk about using technology and the feed like a drug to get high
What character gets a Nike tattoo that makes him say "Nike" in every sentence?
Marty
Who is in charge of Titus' school?
The corporations
What does Violet's father do for a living?
professor of dead languages
This concept describes how a narrator sounds about a topic
Tone
Give the words that match these two definitions:
1. Slang for dude
2. Slang for cool or awesome
1. unit / unette
2. brag & meg
What is Titus' name for his little brother?
Smell Factor
What is unique about beef country?
There's no actual cows - they grow the meat in rows.
What happens to the hacker?
He is beaten to death by the police.
This concept is how the reader feels while reading. It is often created by the description of the setting
Mood
Give the words that match the definition:
1. Chatting on the feed
2. a word for cool or awesome
1. m-chatting
2. brag
Which character is jealous of Calista, and gets huge artifical lesions in order to look cooler than her?
Quendy
Name one difference between Violet and Titus' neighborhoods
Titus - sun for each house, richer, enclosed bubbles for each house
Violet - streets on the ground, sun for one neighborhood, older houses, not as much money
What is Violet's project?
She tries to make herself “invisible” by looking at a bunch of different programs so the feed can’t build a customer profile for her.
This concept is a lesson or message the author is sending
Theme
Give the words that match these definitions:
1. A big disaster
2. Open wounds
1. Calamity
2. Lesions
What kind of work trip does Titus' father show his family at the end of book?
Whaling
Name three things that show that Feed is a dystopia (a future that is messed up or dangerous)
Answers can vary
Examples:
- everyone has a feed
- air factories replacing forests
- constant advertisments
- clothing modeled after riots
- can't go to the ocean without a full body suit
- meat farm
- really high prices for everything
- suburbs disappearing
- wars and riots
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Why did Violet's father get her a feed?
He got made fun of at a job interview and knew she would need one to fit in.
What is one major theme of feed?
Answers very
Give the words that match these two definitions:
1. Getting advertised to
2. The way that flying cars move up and down levels of cities.
2. droptube
Which character was the only one of Titus' friends to not get hacked at the Rumble Spot?
Loga
What is the name of the lo-grav club that Titus and his friends go to at the very beginning of the book?
the Richochet Lounge
What are different about Quendy & Calista's lesions at the end of the book?
They are artificial.
What is satire?
a type of writing that uses over-exaggeration and comedy to make a point and comment about something in our own world.