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- 1. Multiple Choice
What does the word dystopia literally mean?
Distant place
Not a good place
Non-existent place
- 2. Multiple Choice
Of these dystopian works, which was written earliest?
The Iron Heel
Gulliver's Travels
Brave New World
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of these was NOT a major influence of dystopian literature?
The Protestant Reformation
World War II
The Industrial Revolution
- 4. Multiple Choice
What was disturbing about the future world of The Time Machine?
A nuclear apocalypse rendering the world barely habitable
Time travel destroying the fabric of the universe
Economic inequality resulting in separate species of humans
- 5. Multiple Choice
What was Orwell trying to critique in his novel "1984"?
Communism
Capitalism
Propaganda
- 6. Multiple Choice
What was the basic formula for dystopia established by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels?
Gulliver encounters societies that seem impressive, but are seriously flawed.
Upper class and lower class becoming separate species
Traveling to new worlds and encountering different types of people
- 7. Multiple Choice
What was a major difference between dystopian fiction of the 19th century and the 20th?
They no longer looked at what was currently going on in the world.
The dystopians of the 20th century seemed more unlikely to happen. They seemed to be more "make believe."
The new dystopians seemed more real and the possibility they could happen seemed more terrifying.
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is the relationship between science fiction and dystopia?
Many dystopians look at how science has gone wrong.
You can't have a dystopian world unless science is involved.
They are not connected.
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