What did Equality gather from the yard in the home of the Scholars? Correct Answer: Glass
vials, pieces of metal, bones.
How does Equality compare the light bulb to himself? Correct Answer: A vein torn from him
What does Equality say to Liberty that is forbidden? Correct Answer: Our Dearest One
What does Equality wonder about himself? Correct Answer: He wonders what he looks like.
What does Equality put in the jar of brine? Correct Answer: zinc, copper
How long had it been since Equality had written? Correct Answer: 30 days
What is the real reason behind their rejection of his invention? Correct Answer: They don't want
to know that there is some other force out there. They want to keep the people contained. They
don't want a rebellion. If you keep people ignorant, you can control them.
What painting does Equality notice on the wall when he meets the council? Correct Answer: 20
men who invented the candle--intellectually stagnant, Their imagination is subdued.
Where does Equality go after he shows his invention? Correct Answer: Into the Unchartered
Forest
What does the candle symbolize? Correct Answer: Outdated/opposite of innovation
What does Equality kill in the forest? Correct Answer: a bird with a stone. And then he cooks it
and eats it. He is very proud of his individual accomplishment.
What does the Unchartered Forest symbolize? Correct Answer: Freedom, individuality, rebirth,
happiness, opportunity, reconciliation with himself because before he felt badly about himself
and now he is proud, independent, self-reliant
Why is Equality sent to the Palace of Corrective Detention? Correct Answer: He was late back
to the theater. They ask where he was, and he will not tell them that he was in the tunnel.
What is Equality's punishment? Correct Answer: Lashed until he passes out/punched in face
What does Equality see when he is lashed? Correct Answer: Iron bars of the door and blood
dropping down that looks like ash
Why does he laughed when he remembers that he is "damned"? Correct Answer: Because he is
not damned; he is blessed. He is happy and feels free. He can laugh, sit, stand, jump, hunt for his
own food, swing on branches, etc.