What is a Dystopian
Fahrenheit 451
Short Stories
Who said that?
100
Define a Dystopia
A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through a type of control.
100
Define censorship
Censorship is controlling what people get to read, hear, or receive knowledge on certain topics.
100
What is the name of the main character in the short story, The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury? What does he get in trouble for?
What is Leonard Mead, and he gets arrested for walking outside?
100
Who said "Everyone has their preordained position, and everyone is in their place except you."
Who is Wilford to Curtis in Snowpiercer?
200
Name THREE characteristics of a Dystopian society
• Propaganda is used to control the citizens of society.
• Information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted.
• A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society.
• Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance.
• Citizens have a fear of the outside world.
• Citizens live in a dehumanized state.
• The natural world is banished and distrusted.
• Citizens conform to uniform expectations. Individuality and dissent are bad.
• The society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world.
200
Name the three individuals who help Montag begin to question his world
Who are Clarisee, Faber, and Granger?
200
What happened to Vail in the short story, After the Cure?
She was a monster beforem but then given the cure and is readjusting to society. Meets James and falls in love. Has to protect him from monsters.
200
Who said, "We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"
Who is Guy Montag to Mildred?
300
Name all Four Types of Control
Corporate, Bureaucratic, Technological, and Philosophical.
300
Name an example of a type of control in the society in Fahrenheit 451, and how
Technological Control-Seashells and Parlour Walls
Bureaucratic-Book burning/censorship
300
What are the names of the TWO short stories we read by Kurt Vonnegut and what were they about?
What is 2B02B? About population control and dad has to kill 3 people for his kids to be live.
What is Harrison Bergeron? About an equal society, where people are given and controlled by handicaps to maintain order
300
Where is this quote from, "“Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So was old age. Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers. The population of the United States was stabilized at forty-million souls.”?
What is 2BR02B?
400
Identify 2 traits of a Dystopian Protagonist
• often feels trapped and is struggling to escape.
• questions the existing social and political systems.
• believes or feels that something is terribly wrong with the society in which he or she lives.
• helps the audience recognize the negative aspects of the dystopian world through his or her perspective.
400
What does Captain Beatty represent in the novel?
He represents the control of knowledge and the weaponization of knowledge!
400
What happens in the episode, Number 12 looks just like you?
Marilyn is forced to undergo surgery that makes her beautiful and like everyone else, but she doesn't want to.
400
Who said "A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.”?
Who is Captain Beatty to Montag?