Story

Questions

1. What year is the story set in?
2. Why are people given handicaps?
3. What are the Bergerons watching on television?
4. How old was Harrison when the government took him away?
5. What mental handicap does George have?
6. Why is George given that handicap?
7. What urgent news announcement does one of the ballerinas make?
8. What does Harrison claim he is?
9. What does the Handicapper General do?
10. What does George tell Hazel to do about being sad?

Answers

1. 2081
2. To make people equal
3. Ballet
4. Fourteen
5. Sirens going off in his ears
6. Because he is of above-average intelligence
7. Harrison Bergeron has escaped
8. The Emperor
9. Shoots Harrison and the ballerina
10. Forget sad things