SUPER QUIZ
Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.
Subject: 20TH CENTURY DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
Dystopia is an imaginary dehumanized place. Use the clues to name the novel. (e.g., 1949: George Orwell: Set in the totalitarian state
Oceania. Answer: “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”)
FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. 1953: Ray Bradbury: Firemen burn any books that are located. Answer________
2. 1945: George Orwell: Farm animals rebel against their human farmer. Answer________
3. 1932: Aldous Huxley: A future with scientific advances but no personal freedom. Answer________
4. 1954: William Golding: British boys are stranded on an uninhabited island. Answer________
5. 1985: Margaret Atwood: Set in the patriarchal, totalitarian Republic of Gilead.
Answer________
GRADUATE LEVEL
6. 1938: Ayn Rand: Individuality is eliminated. A man named Equality 7-2521 rebels. Answer________
7. 1962: Anthony Burgess: The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits.
Answer________
8. 1968: Philip K. Dick: The plot follows Rick Deckard in postapocalyptic San Francisco. Answer________
9. 1978: Stephen King: A lethal strain of influenza is developed as a biological weapon. Answer________
10. 1925: Franz Kafka: A man is arrested and prosecuted for a crime not revealed to him.
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PH.D. LEVEL
11. 1963: Pierre Boulle: Humans and intelligent apes clash for control. Answer________
12. 1901: H.G. Wells: The two protagonists undertake a journey to the moon. Answer________
13. 1942: John Steinbeck: A small coastal town is overrun by an invading army. Answer________
14. 1955: John Wyndham: Postapocalypse Labrador people believe God sent “Tribulation.” Answer________
15. 1953: Evelyn Waugh: Miles Plastic goes to work at a state-run euthanasia center.
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