Part A:
What is a major theme of “Harrison Bergeron”?

(A) It is impossible to make people totally identical in every way.

(B) Unintelligent people inevitably become bad parents.

(C) Television is bad for society because it shows violence.

(D) Evil people gravitate to powerful positions in the government.

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

(A) The violence occurs live on TV when “Diana Moon Glampers... came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun….”

(B) Diana Moon Glampers kills Harrison: “She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead….”

(C) The heaviest of handicaps cannot mask Harrison's superiority: he “had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think them up.”

(D) After the government takes Harrison away, Vonnegut writes that although it was sad, "Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard.”

Answer: Part A: A) It is impossible to make people totally identical in every way. Part B: C) The heaviest of handicaps cannot mask Harrison's superiority: he “had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think them up.”

Explanation: "Harrison Bergeron" is a short story about a future where equality is taken to another level, by law, all people should be as equal as possible, this means that if you are better than someone else at something, you will be forced to use "handicaps" to make you equal to everyone else. But this develops the theme that it is impossible to make people totally identical in every way this is support by the fact that the heaviest of handicaps cannot mask Harrison's superiority.