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: Wh
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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.
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