So is a quiz kinda in it and the right answers have a dot by it (•)
1.Who is International 4-8818?
The Golden One’s father
A member of the World Council of Scholars
•Equality 7-2521’s best friend
One of the screamers at the Home of the Students
2. Where does Equality 7-2521 write the beginning part of the novella?
In a cave
In a tunnel•
At his house
On the street
3. What does the Golden One do for a living?
She is a scholar
She is a street sweeper
She is a cook
She is a peasant•
4. Why do the members of the World Council of Scholars reject the lightbulb?
Because they are afraid of it•
Because the bulb doesn’t work
Because they already have one
Because the bulb is too bright
5. Why does Equality 7-2521 decide to offer the World Council of Scholars the lightbulb?
He wants to help his brothers•
He wants the World Council of Scholars to forgive him for not telling the Home Council where he had been
He wants the World Council of Scholars to pay him for his invention
He wants to barter the lightbulb for a date with the Golden One
6. Where does Equality 7-2521 meet the Golden One?
In the Palace of Mating
At the World Council of Scholars
In the field•
At the Home of Students
7. What word doesn’t the Golden One know until the end of the novella?
“You”
“Them”
“We”
“I”•
8. What does Equality 7-2521 do for a living, officially?
He sweeps the streets•
He invents things
He builds houses
He fights for equality
9. Who is Prometheus?
The Roman god of fire
The Golden One
The man who stole fire from the gods•
The god of the underworld
10. At the end of the novella, Equality 7-2521 does not plan to do which of the following?
Kill Collective 0-0009•
Save International 4-8818
Put up wire around his house
Raise his son as a man
11. The first time they meet, what does Equality 7-2521 say to the Golden One?
“What is your name?”
“Dearest one . . .”
“We love you.”
Nothing•
12. What does Equality 7-2521 believe is the most important concept known to man?
Light
Ego•
Privacy
Silence
13. Why does Equality 7-2521 break out of the Palace of Corrective Detention?
The World Council is meeting•
He is being tortured
The Golden One needs him
He wants to work on his inventions
14. When does the story take place?
1984
2015
1917
The year is unspecified•
15. How does Equality 7-2521 escape the Palace of Corrective Detention?
He threatens not to give the World Council the lightbulb
He tunnels out
He steals the keys
He kicks the door down•
16. Where does the story take place?
New York
Poland
Russia
The location is unspecified•
17. What is the name of Ayn Rand’s philosophy?
Objectivism•
Subjectivism
Collectivism
Socialism
18. Equality 7-2521 discovers which of the following?
Lightning
Electricity•
Subatomic particles
Greek manuscripts
19. Why don’t the students talk to each other?
They don’t have anything to say
They are not allowed
They are afraid that the others might not• agree with what they say
They know they already agree
20. Who built the house in which Equality 7-2521 and the Golden One live at the end of the novella?
The Homebuilders
The Golden One
Equality 7-2521
Men from the Unmentionable Times•
21. Why does Equality 7-2521 get sent to the Palace of Corrective Detention?
For refusing to tell the Home Council•
where he was one night
For inventing the lightbulb
For talking to the Golden One
For drinking out of the wrong water fountain
22. How does Equality 7-2521 discover electricity?
In a thunderstorm
By sticking his finger in a socket
•While dissecting a frog hanging on a copper wire
The Golden One tells him about it
23. Of whom does Equality 7-2521 consider himself a disciple?
The Golden One
Jesus Christ
Collective 0-0009
•The Transgressor of the Unspeakable Word
24. Where does Equality 7-2521 go when he is exiled?
The tunnel
The Palace of Corrective Detention
The forest•
His new house
25. What is the most evil word in the language (according to Rand)?
“I”
“You”
“We”•
“They”
Well actually, somebody does follow
