Read the following passage:The year is 2186. In an effort to eliminate discrimination and competition, humans have been genetically engineered to begin life as clones. The single global government provides the same education and health care to all citizens. Every home is exactly the same, everyone receives the same salary, and every family is the same size. Outliers are "removed" from society in order to ensure uniformity.How would the author best resolve this situation to create a feeling of despair?A.A character who attempts to enlighten others as to society's problems is "removed" by the government.B.The narrator finds that a pocket of outliers are living secretly outside the detection of government.C.The government decides to cut everyone's wages to a lower but equal amount.D.Scientists find that they can alter the genetics of clones to make them more compliant.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Read the following passage:The year is 2186. In an effort to eliminate discrimination and competition, humans have been genetically engineered to begin life as clones. The single global government provides the same education and health care to all citizens. Every home is exactly the same, everyone receives the same salary, and every family is the same size. Outliers are "removed" from society in order to ensure uniformity.Based on this passage, which statement best suggests that the story's setting is a dystopia?A.Medical science is very advanced.B.Necessities are rationed by the government.C.There is total government control.D.There is no discrimination in society.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

The year is 2186. Humankind has taken to living underground during a decades-long nuclear winter. There is no government and no form of widespread communication. Isolated pockets of individuals live in self-sustaining shelters or caves, each group barely managing to subsist.Based on this passage, which statement best suggests that the story's setting is a dystopia?A.A disaster has caused people to adapt their lifestyles.B.An authoritarian government controls people's lives.C.Humans are isolated from one another.D.Not everyone has equal access to scarce resources.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

This is a literary device and genre used by writers to present a vision of the future that challenges readers to reflect on the current social and political environments in which they live. It often portrays society in cataclysmic decline resulting from environmental ruin, control through technology, and government oppression of individual freedom and expression.*A.ThemeB. DystopiaC. UtopiaD. Stereotype

What is the author's purpose in including the following paragraph in his argument about the dangers of human indifference to suffering?We are on the threshold of a new century, a new millennium. What will the legacy of this vanishing century be? How will it be remembered in the new millennium? Surely it will be judged, and judged severely, in both moral and metaphysical terms. These failures have cast a dark shadow over humanity: two World Wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations (Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin), bloodbaths in Cambodia and Algeria, India and Pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo; the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima. And, on a different level, of course, Auschwitz and Treblinka. So much violence; so much indifference.A.Wiesel is showing the audience that historical facts are sometimes inaccurate.B.Wiesel is showing the audience times he has suffered from indifference.C.Wiesel is showing how widespread the effects of indifference are.D.Wiesel is showing examples of times people were not indifferent to suffering.

What is the author's purpose in including the following paragraph in his argument about the dangers of human indifference to suffering?We are on the threshold of a new century, a new millennium. What will the legacy of this vanishing century be? How will it be remembered in the new millennium? Surely it will be judged, and judged severely, in both moral and metaphysical terms. These failures have cast a dark shadow over humanity: two World Wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations (Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin), bloodbaths in Cambodia and Algeria, India and Pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo; the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima. And, on a different level, of course, Auschwitz and Treblinka. So much violence; so much indifference.A.Wiesel is showing how widespread the effects of indifference are.B.Wiesel is showing the audience that historical facts are sometimes inaccurate.C.Wiesel is showing the audience times he has suffered from indifference.D.Wiesel is showing examples of times people were not indifferent to suffering.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS