Anthem Review chapters 1-12 questions with complete solutions
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 Correct Answer: Outdated/opposite of innovation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.
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.
