7. In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergenon, how do the different handicaps contribute to the theme of the story?
1.) They show that it’s important to continue making handicaps
2.) They emphasize how the most ordinary people are often the most valued in a society.
3.) They stress how the work towards achieving total equality won't be easy or pleasant.
4.) They illustrate how much must be done to make the most unique and talented individuals conform.
9a. Select the statement that BEST identifies one of the major themes in The Veldt
1.) When parents spoil their children it can have dire consequences.
2.) Too much technology for young children can be damaging to their development
3.) Consumer technology is powerful and addictive.
4.) Technology fulfills people’s every need, reducing humans to passive beings who need to do very little for themselves
9b. Which example from the text best supports the theme you chose above? The Veldt
1.) Remarkable how the nursery caught the telepathic emanations of the children’s minds and created life to fill their every desire. The children thought lions, and there were lions. The children thought zebras, and there were zebras. Sun—sun. Giraffes—giraffes. Death and death.ption 1
2.) “George, you’ll have to change your life. Like too many others, you’ve built it around creature comforts. Why, you’d starve tomorrow if something went wrong in your kitchen. You wouldn’tknow how to tap an egg.”
3.) “You’ve let this room and this house replace you and your wife in your children’s affections. This room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents. And now you come along and want to shut it off. No wonder there’s hatred here. You can feel it coming out of the sky.”
4.) How many times in the last year had he opened this door and found Wonderland, Alice, the Mock Turtle, or Aladdin and his Magical Lamp, …all the delightful contraptions of a make-believe world…. But now, this yellow hot Africa, this bake oven with murder in the heat. Perhaps Lydia was right. Perhaps they needed a little vacation from the fantasy which was growing a bit too real for ten-year-old children.
11a. In Martin Luther King’s, “I Have a Dream” speech, what message is King trying to convey to the audience?
1.) The images highlight the division in society and the danger of continuing down the paths from which they have come.
2.) King highlights the differences between the current atrocities and potential for peace.
3.) He reinforces harsh situations with images of bondage and isolation.
4.) Initially he tells people who have been vitims of segretation and injustice to go back to places such as Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina, articulating how his dream will look in each of these places.
11b. Which example from the text best supports your answer?
1.) In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
2.) Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
3.) We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now.
4.) We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.