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Anthem

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Question 1

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Which of the following is NOT ironic

The World Council of Scholars is afraid of the box (electricity)

Equality's name

The society's rules are aimed at making people happy, yet men live in fear

Equality missed his curfew because he was working in the tunnel

Question 2

2.

In this society, which is most important?

job assignments

sticking to a schedule

The collective working together as "we"

the decisions from the House of Scholars

Question 3

3.

How does the tone of Anthem change throughout the book?

remorseful to happy to anxious

guilty to hopeful to empowered

angry to frightened to sad

eager to sad to depressed

Question 4

4.

Why is is appropriate that the narrator tells the story in the first person point of view?

The story is about falling in love

No one talks about their feelings so the narrator doesn't know what other people feel

The story is mainly about the rights and freedoms of the individual 

The narrator lives in a society where it is acceptable to se first person pronouns

Question 5

5.

What is the turning point of the novel?

When Equality meets Liberty

When Equality is beaten because he will not say where he has been

When Equality presents the glass box and it is rejected by the World Council

When Equality finds the tunnel

Question 6

6.

Which is not a component of the collectivist culture of the World Council?

Men serve one another, not themselves

A person may pursue his own ideas of happiness

The needs of the many are more important than the needs of a single person

The good of the many outweighs the good of the individual

Question 7

7.

What bothers Equality when he finds out that Liberty is 17 years old?

She is not old enough to marry him

She will be assigned to someone for mating in one year

She is allowed to move away when she is 18 and he won't see her again

She is not old enough to date

Question 8

8.

How is the home Equality finds in the forest different from where he lived with the street sweepers?

The home in the forest has mirrors

The Home of the Sweepers has 100 beds, while the home has only 2

All of these answers are correct

The home in the forest is colorful

Question 9

9.

The reader can infer that Fraternity cries a lot because...

he is unhappy with society's expectations

his girlfriend rejected him

he doesn't like his boos

he misses his family

Question 10

10.

Why is Prometheus a fitting name for Equality?

Prometheus is punished for bringing light to people

Prometheus rebuilds society just as Equality wishes to do

Prometheus loved mortals and wanted them to have more power than the gods

Prometheus famously showed soldiers how to set fire to camps