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 * Harrison Bergeron – Response Questions**

1. What has guaranteed equality in the story? The government puts on radios to stop new thoughts, they put weight on strong and/ or fast and they make them wear masks if one was too beautiful

2. How old is Harrison? 14

3. What has happened to Harrison and why? He was sent to jail for taking off his handicap

4. How has the government made George and Hazel equal? What does George have to wear? And what does this do? George had to wear a radio in his ear to stop new thoughts every 20 seconds, and they both had to wear bags of metal and masks to hide a free and graceful gesture, or a pretty face.

5. What does Hazel say she would do if she were Handicap General? she would make the sound of chimes every sunday in the ear radios.

6. What is the name of the Handicap General? Diana Moon Glampers

7. What is the consequence for taking lessening the weight of the handicap bag? two years in prison and a two thousand dollar fine for every ball he took out. 8. What reason does George give for not trying to cheat? If he got away with it, other people would get away with it, and pretty soon, they would be back to the dark ages.

· Because of this reason, what can we infer about George’s opinion of the current laws? It is the only way that they could stay modern 9. Why wasn’t the news bulletin clear at first to George and Hazel and other viewers? Because all news reporters had speech impetiments

10. Why did the ballerina apologize about her voice? It was considered unfair to the other people

11. What is the news bulletin? The news bulletin was about Harrison escaping from jail and tell the viewers to tell them if they found him.

12. Describe Harrison Bergeron with all of his handicaps? He looked like a walking junk yard. he wore tremendous headphones, wavy spectacles, 300 lb. bags, a red rubber ball on his nose, and always had to keep his eyebrows shaved.

13. What does Harrison declare on television? He declares himself of being an emperor.

14. What happens to Harrison? Be specific. Harrison chooses an empress, dances with her, and gets shot.

15. What does this story suggest about human nature? Humans are very jealous of other peoples abilities.