Anthem study guide Chapter 1-12 | with Complete Solution
What is a dystopian society? Correct Answer: The direct opposite of a Utopian society.
Who is the narrator? What is the point of view? Correct Answer: Equality 7-2521 and First
person
What is the motto engraved over the portals on the Palace of the World Council? Correct
Answer: We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One,
indivisible and forever.
What is the prayer they recite every night? Correct Answer: We are nothing. Mankind is all. By
the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who
are the state. amen.
What do these tell you about this futuristic world? Correct Answer: It shows the collective /
group is the most important thing
What is the Home of Infants? What transgression does he commit here? Correct Answer: A
home for children 0 years of age to 5 years of age and He fought people.
What is the Home of Students? What transgression does he commit here? Correct Answer: A
home for ages 5 to 15 for ten years of learning and his brain is too quick learning is very easy for
him and it is evil to be superior to your brothers.
What is the Council of Vocations? Correct Answer: The Council who decides what your job will
be for the rest of your time until you turn 40.
What is the Transgression of Preference? Correct Answer: Sin of preferring one over another-
liking one thing over another
What do all these Homes have in common? Correct Answer: They are very strict and adhere to a
schedule- each home has 100 men per house, they contain only those who are required to live
there, they are white, bare, and save of all things but 100 beds
What purpose does this serve? Correct Answer: maintains order- everyone has the same and
there is nothing different
What is the Science of Things? Correct Answer: Subject in school that teaches the ways of the
world- but they understand things that are very backwards- flat world sun revolves around the
earth
What do you understand the Great Rebirth to be? Correct Answer: When society changed to the
way it is now- Revolution to change it collectivist
, What is the Home of the Useless? An Old One? An Ancient One? Correct Answer: People of
the age 40 go here and do nothing. An old one is 40 years old. An ancient one is 45 years old.
Since this is a novel about the future, what do you think has
become of the world as we know it? Correct Answer: It has devolved- society has reverted
backward before modern technology or any technology
What is the Life Mandate? Correct Answer: Job that you will work until you are 40.
What happens to Equality 7-2521 when he appears before the Council of Vocations to receive
his Life Mandate? Correct Answer: He gets assigned to a Street Sweeper
How do you explain the way in which he received his
Assignment? Correct Answer: he was assigned Street Sweeper in order to keep all the smarter
people
What is his life like for the next four years? Correct Answer: The same thing everyday
What does his future hold for him? Correct Answer: Same thing everyday until he was 40.
Who are Union 5-3992 and International 4-8818? Correct Answer: These are the two men
Equality works with everyday sweeping the streets
What is the Uncharted Forest? Correct Answer: unexplored area that no one is allowed to go
into
What are the Unmentionable Times Correct Answer: It is the past but in actuality is the time we
currently live in
What does Equality find? Correct Answer: a subway tunnel
Why does International say, "May the Council have mercy upon both of our hearts!" (34)?
Correct Answer: He is afraid the council will find out their secret but he will not betray Equality
For the next two years, what does he do about about/with his Discovery? Correct Answer: He
sneaks out, studies , steals stuff from the other houses and sits in the tunnel for 3 hours learning
Just by going there, what great transgression does he commit? Correct Answer: Going down
there to learn things they don't teach in the schools and also being alone by himself
How does International help him? Correct Answer: He does not tell anyone about the tunnel and
allows Equality to sneak back into the line on the way back home
What other transgressions does Equality commit? Correct Answer: not going to Social
Recreation, writing, being alone, stealing stuff, doing work he was not assigned to do
What is a dystopian society? Correct Answer: The direct opposite of a Utopian society.
Who is the narrator? What is the point of view? Correct Answer: Equality 7-2521 and First
person
What is the motto engraved over the portals on the Palace of the World Council? Correct
Answer: We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One,
indivisible and forever.
What is the prayer they recite every night? Correct Answer: We are nothing. Mankind is all. By
the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who
are the state. amen.
What do these tell you about this futuristic world? Correct Answer: It shows the collective /
group is the most important thing
What is the Home of Infants? What transgression does he commit here? Correct Answer: A
home for children 0 years of age to 5 years of age and He fought people.
What is the Home of Students? What transgression does he commit here? Correct Answer: A
home for ages 5 to 15 for ten years of learning and his brain is too quick learning is very easy for
him and it is evil to be superior to your brothers.
What is the Council of Vocations? Correct Answer: The Council who decides what your job will
be for the rest of your time until you turn 40.
What is the Transgression of Preference? Correct Answer: Sin of preferring one over another-
liking one thing over another
What do all these Homes have in common? Correct Answer: They are very strict and adhere to a
schedule- each home has 100 men per house, they contain only those who are required to live
there, they are white, bare, and save of all things but 100 beds
What purpose does this serve? Correct Answer: maintains order- everyone has the same and
there is nothing different
What is the Science of Things? Correct Answer: Subject in school that teaches the ways of the
world- but they understand things that are very backwards- flat world sun revolves around the
earth
What do you understand the Great Rebirth to be? Correct Answer: When society changed to the
way it is now- Revolution to change it collectivist
, What is the Home of the Useless? An Old One? An Ancient One? Correct Answer: People of
the age 40 go here and do nothing. An old one is 40 years old. An ancient one is 45 years old.
Since this is a novel about the future, what do you think has
become of the world as we know it? Correct Answer: It has devolved- society has reverted
backward before modern technology or any technology
What is the Life Mandate? Correct Answer: Job that you will work until you are 40.
What happens to Equality 7-2521 when he appears before the Council of Vocations to receive
his Life Mandate? Correct Answer: He gets assigned to a Street Sweeper
How do you explain the way in which he received his
Assignment? Correct Answer: he was assigned Street Sweeper in order to keep all the smarter
people
What is his life like for the next four years? Correct Answer: The same thing everyday
What does his future hold for him? Correct Answer: Same thing everyday until he was 40.
Who are Union 5-3992 and International 4-8818? Correct Answer: These are the two men
Equality works with everyday sweeping the streets
What is the Uncharted Forest? Correct Answer: unexplored area that no one is allowed to go
into
What are the Unmentionable Times Correct Answer: It is the past but in actuality is the time we
currently live in
What does Equality find? Correct Answer: a subway tunnel
Why does International say, "May the Council have mercy upon both of our hearts!" (34)?
Correct Answer: He is afraid the council will find out their secret but he will not betray Equality
For the next two years, what does he do about about/with his Discovery? Correct Answer: He
sneaks out, studies , steals stuff from the other houses and sits in the tunnel for 3 hours learning
Just by going there, what great transgression does he commit? Correct Answer: Going down
there to learn things they don't teach in the schools and also being alone by himself
How does International help him? Correct Answer: He does not tell anyone about the tunnel and
allows Equality to sneak back into the line on the way back home
What other transgressions does Equality commit? Correct Answer: not going to Social
Recreation, writing, being alone, stealing stuff, doing work he was not assigned to do
