Zora Neale Hurston’s Strong Voice Answers

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What makes this an example of irony?

Characters are forced to limit intelligence, which is normally a positive attribute.

George is forced to limit his own intelligence, but he does not know it.

Government officials mistakenly think that they are using radios to limit people’s intelligence.

George is extremely intelligent, but his wife, Hazel, has an average intellect.

Based on the irony in this passage, Vonnegut is critiquing a society that .

values equality over intelligence

respects individuality and freedom

overuses artificial intelligence

How does the author use a description of technology to create satire in this passage?

To show the extremes a society would need to engage in to create equality

To make fun of people who use earphones all the time

To create a humorous view of people who are dedicated to enhancing technology

To contrast advanced future technologies with the primitive technologies known to the audience

What ironic contrast does Vonnegut include in this scene?

George tells his wife to forget sad things, but readers would expect George and Hazel to want to remember their son.

George is smarter than Hazel, but neither of them can remember what they just watched on television.

Readers would expect a sad ending to the story, but instead it ends on a positive note.

Hazel says that everything is “mixed up in her mind,” but the reader knows that she is actually much smarter than she thinks.

How can the dystopian society in “Harrison Bergeron” be interpreted as a satire? Check all that could apply.

It connects American society’s desire for equality with its fears of conformity.

It exaggerates the absurdity of a vision of society in which everyone is equal.

It encourages society’s obsession with television.

It highlights the need for government legislation that demands conformity from all citizens.

It makes a comment about society’s fears of social changes and government.

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