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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word is used to describe Harrison?

2. In which month do the H-G men take Harrison?

3. Which point of view is the story told from?

4. Who invents handicaps?

5. What are the ballerinas loaded down with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the audience know that the ballerina who speaks is beautiful?

2. What is the reader to assume about Harrison's goals?

3. What would happen if people could not ponder important things?

4. Why is this short story considered a satire?

5. Why does Harrison threaten the musicians?

6. What kind of sounds does George hear in his earpiece?

7. What are Harrison's handicap motivations?

8. What is humorous about Hazel repeating her doozy remark at the end of the story?

9. What is the purpose of Harrison's glasses?

10. What is the purpose of disabling the dancers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

On Page 768, the Emperor and Empress listen gravely, synchronizing their heartbeats. In what other ways does the author show the couple's instant connection?

Essay Topic 2

How is Harrison unlike any other person? What makes him have an individual personality when everyone else blindly follows the government?

Essay Topic 3

On page 764, Hazel says that if anyone should know what normal is, it is her. What is normal about Hazel? Why does she not wear handicaps? How does the narrator view Hazel?

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