The Machine Stops

How does Vashti live?

• Alone in a small room, hexagonal in shape, lighted by window not by lamp.

• Vashti lives with his son, and are happy.

• Vashti lives in the streets as a homeless people.

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How does Kuno and Vashti communicate?

• Vasthi and Kuno lived together

• A kind of video-call where they get to see each other.

• Phone call that the machine provides them.

What do Vashti used to believe?

• visiting the surface of the Earth and having direct contact is brainless and feeble ­minded.

• Machine is Useless and it's not worthy having it.

• There is no such thing as a Government.

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What is it like for Vashti when she leaves her room?

• Reality begins to soothe her, and she realizes she was scared for nothing.

• She is terribly excited, and she realizes that she is glad to visit her son.

• Reality makes her nervous, and she realizes she prefers artificial life in her room.

• She is frustrated over how much easier life is near the surface then down in her room

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What happens when Vashti saw the sun?

• she thinks about how once humans controlled nature, they became bored and went underground.

• she thinks about how humans kept trying in vain to conquer nature before going underground.

• she embraces its beauty and begins to see the merits of life outside the machine.

• she thinks she is disgusted by the light, but her body actually responds positively to it.

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Why did Kuno really want to see his mother?

• to tell her without interference that he broke the machine’s rules and might be killed for it

• because he wants her help finding a secret way out of the machine

• because he missed seeing her face, as his odd upbringing has made him more sentimental than others

• to describe to her his plans to destroy the machine and the machine committee

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What happened in the end of the story?

• Kuno and Vashti die in the machine, but the homeless save many of the people living in the machine.

• all human life on earth is wiped out by the machine, while a crashing airship kills Vashti and Kuno.

• Kuno and Vashti manage to escape and go off to live with the homeless survivors on the surface.

• those in the machine die, including Kuno and Vashti, but Kuno believes the homeless will save mankind.

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What does homelessness mean?

• It is a punishment in which the machine send people to the surface area, and people die.

• People who live in the street.

• People who are protected from their governments.

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What does Kuno think of his trip to the surface?

• He believes he can survive as a “homeless” person because he saw another living person on the surface.

• He thinks it was a waste because he was returned to the machine and there’s no way to escape again.

• He realizes that the surface is as hopeless as the machine and that it’s better to die in comfort in the machine.

• The machine has control of all life on the surface, as well as life beneath the surface of the earth.

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Which of the following can be the theme of the story?

• Human are useless.

• relying too much on the technology is dangerous

• Technology is really good for everyone

• Without technology, Life is not useful.

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