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Dystopias in Literature

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Introduction:
"Sometimes the future just isn't all that it was made out to be."


1. In which novel does Aldous Huxley depict a society in which universal happiness exists, but only through the use of the drug Soma?
    1984
    Brave New World
    We
    What Price Progress?


2. Which author’s "Harrison Bergeron" depicts a world where, as the opening line promises, "everybody was finally equal"?
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Margaret Atwood
    Douglas Adams
    Anthony Burgess


3. Which Margaret Atwood dystopia features a main character named Offred?
    The Handmaid's Tale
    Alias Grace
    Egalia's Daughters
    The Blind Assassin


4. Another discouraging view of the future was written in 1921 by Yevgeny Zamyatin. What rather short name does Zamyatin's novel have when translated into English?
    We
    I
    Her
    You


5. William Nolan's "Logan's Run" depicts a society that finally found a solution to the problem of overpopulation. What is that solution?
    Children of the lower classes are provided as food for the upper classes
    All members of society must commit suicide when they reach a certain age
    All males must serve as soldiers in a war with an artificially high death rate
    All members of society except a select few are subject to mandatory sterilization


6. "Anthem" depicts a collectivist future where even the use of the word "I" has dropped from the language. Which author wrote this dystopia?
    Anthony Burgess
    Harry Harrison
    Paul M. Jessup
    Ayn Rand


7. A more recent example of the genre comes from Lois Lowry, who authored what Newberry Medal winning tale in 1993?
    Bud, Not Buddy
    Maniac Magee
    The Giver
    Walk Two Moons


8. What author's 1966 novel "Make Room, Make Room!" envisioned a future where overcrowding has made life in New York City miserable?
    Pierre Boule
    Harry Harrison
    William Gibson
    Kurt Vonnegut


9. In 1920 Karel Capek wrote a dystopian play often abbreviated "R.U.R". That play became famous not so much for its literary content as for its introduction of which word into the English language?
    Robot
    Umpteen
    Radio
    Upload


10. "It Can't Happen Here" is a story about the rise of Fascism in the United States written by what author of "Arrowsmith" and "Main Street"?
    Sinclair Lewis
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Theodore Dreiser
    William Dean Howells


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