Part A

What is a major theme of “Harrison Bergeron”?

A)Everyone should be totally identical in every way.

B)The average person in modern society is not very smart.

C)Certain restrictions on personal freedoms are necessary.

D)Technology can be used to control people.
Part B

Which evidence from the text best supports the answer in Part A?

A)Harrison behaves violently when he snatches up two musicians and them slams them back into their chairs.

B)The start of the story emphasizes the fact that “everybody was finally equal.”

C)Vonnegut writes that Hazel’s intelligence was average, “which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts.”

D)Transmitters are used “to keep people like George [Harrison's father] from taking unfair advantage of their brains.”

Harrison Bergeron is a book by Kurt Vonnegut and it is a short fiction story set in a dystopian world. The answers to the above questions regarding the book ‘Harrison Bergeron’ are as follows:

1. A major theme of “Harrison Bergeron” is option D: technology can be used to control people.

2. The evidence from the text that best supports the answer in Part A is option D: transmitters are used “to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.”

Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut

Further explanation for the above answers is as given below:

The book is set in a dystopian world where every person has to be equal in every respect. If any person has any special qualities, they cannot use it in any way and they are handicapped so they are equal to the others.

The major theme of the story is the use of technology shown to control the people and to not let them take unfair advantage of their abilities.

Therefore, the correct answers are option D and option D.

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