Anthem Chapter Questions and Answers for the Test
Chapter 1: Question 1: What does the narrator feel is a sin? Correct Answer: The narrator feels
that to think words no others think and to put them down on paper no others are to see is a sin.
Chapter 1: Question 2: What is the narrator's name? Correct Answer: The narrator's name is
Equality 7-2521.
Chapter 1: Question 3: Describe the narrator (Give at least 3 features). Correct Answer: The
narrator is 21 years old, 6 feet tall, and was driven to think thoughts that are forbidden.
Chapter 1: Question 4: What words does the narrator repeat to himself when he feels tempted?
Correct Answer: "We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, one,
indivisible and forever.
Chapter 1: Question 5: Describe the narrator's school experience. Correct Answer: There were
10 Ward's, for 10 years of learning. Men had to learn until they were 15 years old. This was at
the Home of the Students. They were sent there at five years old. After their schooling was done,
they would go to bed. Before getting undressed, they stood in sleeping hall and said a chant with
the right arms raised before sleeping. They slept and then did the same thing the next day. He
wasn't happy during those years and was often lashed. He thought that school was too easy and it
was a sin to be smart and superior to others.
Chapter 1: Question 6: What two new inventions have the Home of Scholars created? Correct
Answer: The first invention was how to make candles from wax and string. The second
invention was how to make glass to put in their windows to protect them from the rain.
Chapter 1: Question 7: What profession is Equality 7-2521 assigned? How does he react to his
assigned job? Why? Correct Answer: The profession he was assigned was Street sweeper. He
was happy about their job because he felt that this was his way to erase his sin against him. He
thought that he was guilty of preferring to go to the House of Scholars.
Chapter 1: Question 8: What happens when people are 40? Correct Answer: People are sent to
the Home of the Useless where the old ones live (they are lucky to live to 45).
Chapter 1: Question 9: What do International 4-8818 and Equality 7-2521 find when they go to
gather their scattered rags? Correct Answer: They discovered an iron bar among the weeds.
They moved the bar and found an iron grill over a black hole. Then they moved the grill and saw
steps going down into the hole where there once was train tracks.
Chapter 1: Question 10: What did International 4-8818 want to do about their discovery? What
did they end up doing? Correct Answer: They didn't want to go down because they felt that it
was forbidden. They still stayed above ground and didn't go down. They wanted to report to the
council and receive a reward but they decided to not tell anyone.
, Chapter 1: Question 11: How does Equality 7-2521 feel about what he has done? Correct
Answer: He feels very surprised about what had happened. He feels no shame or regret even
though he knows that it was wrong. He felt peace.
Chapter 2: Question 1: eWho is Liberty 5-3000? What is liberty 5-3000's occupation? Correct
Answer: Liberty 5-3000 is a group of women who Equality 7-2521 are very interested in.
Liberty 5-3000 work on the edge of the city.
Chapter 2: Question 2:Describe what Liberty 5-3000 looks like (give 3 features). Correct
Answer: Their hair was as golden as the sun, their eyes were dark and hard and glowing with no
fear in them, and their body was straight and thin as a blade of iron.
Chapter 2: Question 3: How do Liberty 5-3000 and Equality 7-2521 greet each other so the
others do not realize they are communicating with one another? Correct Answer: They greeted
each other with their eyes.
Chapter 2: Question 4: What name does Equality give Liberty 5-3000 in his mind? Correct
Answer: Equality gives Liberty 5-3000 the name called the Golden One.
Chapter 2: Question 5: Explain how this society brings children into the world. Has Equality 7-
2521 ever taken part? How does he feel about this practice? Correct Answer: Children are born
every winter but they never know their parents and their parents never see them. Equality 7-2521
has taken part twice but thinks it is a shameful matter.
Chapter 2: Question 6: Name two topics covered in Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000's first
conversation with each other. Correct Answer: They talk about how street sweepers stay in one
place and then they talk about Equality's eyes.
Chapter 2: Question 7: Equality 7-2521 is not sure why he thinks about the Palace of Mating
when he learns that Liberty 5-3000 is 17 years old. Why do you think that he has these thoughts?
Be specific. Correct Answer: He has these thoughts because he us attracted to her and wants to
mate with her but can't because she is too young so he is upset upset.
Chapter 2: Question 8: What does Equality 7-2521 notice about the appearance of his fellow
street sweepers when he is getting ready for bed (list 3 traits)? Does their appearance suggest that
they are happy or unhappy living for their brother men? Correct Answer: He notices that their
heads are bowed, their eyes are dull, their shoulders are hunched, and their muscles are drawn.
This shows that they are unhappy.
Chapter 2: Question 9: What does Equality 7-2521 know about the Uncharted Forrest? Correct
Answer: He knows that men never are supposed to enter the Uncharted Forest, there is a rumor
that once or twice every hundred years one among the men of the city goes in and never returns.
Chapter 2: Question 10: What happened on the Dawn of the Great Rebirth? Correct Answer: On
the Dawn of the Great Rebirth, great fires raged over the land and in these fires, the Evil Ones
were burned.
Chapter 1: Question 1: What does the narrator feel is a sin? Correct Answer: The narrator feels
that to think words no others think and to put them down on paper no others are to see is a sin.
Chapter 1: Question 2: What is the narrator's name? Correct Answer: The narrator's name is
Equality 7-2521.
Chapter 1: Question 3: Describe the narrator (Give at least 3 features). Correct Answer: The
narrator is 21 years old, 6 feet tall, and was driven to think thoughts that are forbidden.
Chapter 1: Question 4: What words does the narrator repeat to himself when he feels tempted?
Correct Answer: "We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, one,
indivisible and forever.
Chapter 1: Question 5: Describe the narrator's school experience. Correct Answer: There were
10 Ward's, for 10 years of learning. Men had to learn until they were 15 years old. This was at
the Home of the Students. They were sent there at five years old. After their schooling was done,
they would go to bed. Before getting undressed, they stood in sleeping hall and said a chant with
the right arms raised before sleeping. They slept and then did the same thing the next day. He
wasn't happy during those years and was often lashed. He thought that school was too easy and it
was a sin to be smart and superior to others.
Chapter 1: Question 6: What two new inventions have the Home of Scholars created? Correct
Answer: The first invention was how to make candles from wax and string. The second
invention was how to make glass to put in their windows to protect them from the rain.
Chapter 1: Question 7: What profession is Equality 7-2521 assigned? How does he react to his
assigned job? Why? Correct Answer: The profession he was assigned was Street sweeper. He
was happy about their job because he felt that this was his way to erase his sin against him. He
thought that he was guilty of preferring to go to the House of Scholars.
Chapter 1: Question 8: What happens when people are 40? Correct Answer: People are sent to
the Home of the Useless where the old ones live (they are lucky to live to 45).
Chapter 1: Question 9: What do International 4-8818 and Equality 7-2521 find when they go to
gather their scattered rags? Correct Answer: They discovered an iron bar among the weeds.
They moved the bar and found an iron grill over a black hole. Then they moved the grill and saw
steps going down into the hole where there once was train tracks.
Chapter 1: Question 10: What did International 4-8818 want to do about their discovery? What
did they end up doing? Correct Answer: They didn't want to go down because they felt that it
was forbidden. They still stayed above ground and didn't go down. They wanted to report to the
council and receive a reward but they decided to not tell anyone.
, Chapter 1: Question 11: How does Equality 7-2521 feel about what he has done? Correct
Answer: He feels very surprised about what had happened. He feels no shame or regret even
though he knows that it was wrong. He felt peace.
Chapter 2: Question 1: eWho is Liberty 5-3000? What is liberty 5-3000's occupation? Correct
Answer: Liberty 5-3000 is a group of women who Equality 7-2521 are very interested in.
Liberty 5-3000 work on the edge of the city.
Chapter 2: Question 2:Describe what Liberty 5-3000 looks like (give 3 features). Correct
Answer: Their hair was as golden as the sun, their eyes were dark and hard and glowing with no
fear in them, and their body was straight and thin as a blade of iron.
Chapter 2: Question 3: How do Liberty 5-3000 and Equality 7-2521 greet each other so the
others do not realize they are communicating with one another? Correct Answer: They greeted
each other with their eyes.
Chapter 2: Question 4: What name does Equality give Liberty 5-3000 in his mind? Correct
Answer: Equality gives Liberty 5-3000 the name called the Golden One.
Chapter 2: Question 5: Explain how this society brings children into the world. Has Equality 7-
2521 ever taken part? How does he feel about this practice? Correct Answer: Children are born
every winter but they never know their parents and their parents never see them. Equality 7-2521
has taken part twice but thinks it is a shameful matter.
Chapter 2: Question 6: Name two topics covered in Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000's first
conversation with each other. Correct Answer: They talk about how street sweepers stay in one
place and then they talk about Equality's eyes.
Chapter 2: Question 7: Equality 7-2521 is not sure why he thinks about the Palace of Mating
when he learns that Liberty 5-3000 is 17 years old. Why do you think that he has these thoughts?
Be specific. Correct Answer: He has these thoughts because he us attracted to her and wants to
mate with her but can't because she is too young so he is upset upset.
Chapter 2: Question 8: What does Equality 7-2521 notice about the appearance of his fellow
street sweepers when he is getting ready for bed (list 3 traits)? Does their appearance suggest that
they are happy or unhappy living for their brother men? Correct Answer: He notices that their
heads are bowed, their eyes are dull, their shoulders are hunched, and their muscles are drawn.
This shows that they are unhappy.
Chapter 2: Question 9: What does Equality 7-2521 know about the Uncharted Forrest? Correct
Answer: He knows that men never are supposed to enter the Uncharted Forest, there is a rumor
that once or twice every hundred years one among the men of the city goes in and never returns.
Chapter 2: Question 10: What happened on the Dawn of the Great Rebirth? Correct Answer: On
the Dawn of the Great Rebirth, great fires raged over the land and in these fires, the Evil Ones
were burned.
