Science fiction

What event foreshadows what will happen to Charlie?

• When Algernon's behavior changes
• when he falls in love with Miss Kinnian
• when the doctors argue
• when the boy drops the dishes

If humans someday colonize Mars, what must they do?

• write about it

• remember it

• improve it

• settle it

What does the mechanical Hound do?

• A. Rescues people

• B. Hunts and kills traitors

• C. Protects the firemen

• D. Cleans the firehouse

Dystopian fiction can be...

• a great form of escapism, because it has no connection to the here-and-now.

• a boring thing your teacher makes you think about for a grade :-)

• a way to educate and warn humanity about the dangers of current social and political structures.

Why won't George take off his handicap bag?

• He thinks it's unfair to others.

• He doesn't want to be better than his wife.

• He has grown attached to his handicap bag.

• He could get in trouble with the government.

When the Medium was asked to show the children their home planet, what word did she use to describe it?

• unpleasant

• pleasant

• charming

stories about how people and societies are affected by imaginary scientific developments in the future

• science fiction

• ode

• ballad

• epic

When Clarrise asks, Montag says that Fireman have always...

• burned books with kerosene
• extinguished fires with water
• valued books
• kept homes from burning down

Why does Katniss begin to hallucinate?

• She is dehydrated and thirsty.

• She is hungry and starving to death.

• She has snacked on poison berries.

• She has been stung by tracker jackers.

Which type of figurative language does Ray Bradbury use in the quote:

the firehouse trembled as a great flight of jet planes whispered a single note across the black morning

• personification

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron