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1. Let's start with a utopian novel. What is the name of the book written by Edward Bellamy, published in 1888, and set in the far distant future of the year 2000, when Julian West wakes up to find the evils and inequities of the past eradicated?
2. The decade of the 1930s seems to have spawned many dystopian novels. Which of the following authors wrote the 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here"?
3. Which famous science fiction author wrote the 1934 screenplay for the 1936 film "Things to Come"?
4. What is the name of the Ayn Rand novella which features Equality 7-2521, assigned as a street sweeper, and Liberty 5-3000, a peasant girl who works in the fields, in a society where individuality has been eliminated?
5. In the 1940s, George Orwell produced two very depressing and scary dystopian novels about totalitarian rule, i.e., "Animal Farm" and "1984", but what is Orwell's birth name?
6. Who is the author of the novel which describes a world where books are outlawed, "firemen" start fires, and where the "autoignition point" of paper is "Fahrenheit 451"?
7. Now let's move on to works written in the 1960s, the decade of rebellion and change; which author presented us with one of the most violent and uncompromising visions of a future England with "Droogs" ruling the streets in "A Clockwork Orange"?
8. What was the name of the novel written by Philip K. Dick in 1968, upon which the film "Blade Runner" was based?
9. What is the name of the dystopian novel written by P.D. James in 1992 and set in England in 2021, which addresses the issue of global infertility?
10. Finally we have made it to the dystopian societies created by authors of the 21st Century. Who is the author of "The Hunger Games" trilogy?
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