Name: _______________________
Gattaca Discussion Questions
Directions: Read each question below and answer each as completely as
possible. Many of these answers don’t have a right or wrong answers.
1. In the movie, parents are able to choose the optimal genetic traits to pass down
to their children. What 3 traits would you like to pass down to you children if you
had a choice?
a. Trait:
b. Trait:
c. Trait:
2. In Gattaca, people are assigned jobs based on their genetic make-up. What
would be two advantages and two disadvantages of this system?
a. Advantage:
b. Advantage:
c. Disadvantage:
d. Disadvantage
:
3. What are three things that Jerome has to do every day in order to trick the testing
system at Gattaca?
a.
b.
c.