The Secret Source by Ben Okri

What is a possible theme of this story?

• Don't believe everything you hear and read.

• Don't trust the police.

• Friendship
• Don't trust old men.

What did Venus and Fisher find at the end of the story?

• Another destroyed city.

• The last real water in left in the world.

• A young boy and his grandfather.

• A mother and son.

What was happening to the people who swam in the contaminated water?

• They were dying

• They were catching contagious diseases from the sewage water.

• Nothing was wrong with them.

• The water turned them into monsters with scales.

"You can't go against the world." Who says this?

• Venus

• The Scientist

• Fisher

"I drink this water all the time, and there has never been anything wrong with my mental processes." Who said this?

• Venus

• Police Officer

• The philosopher

• The Scientist

Venus and Fisher realized they could not trust any media. All newspapers were saying the same thing. What were they saying?

• That the government was corrupt

• That there was a "water wars"

• That nothing was wrong with the government or the water.

• That the police was corrupt.

What did the scientist say to Fisher and Venus after they went to him searching for answers?

• He said that they were letting their emotions get to them, and they were not thinking rationally.

• He said that he won a Nobel Prize that proved something was wrong with the water.

• He said that he trusted the government.

• He told them that Venus was very beautiful, and that he would like to marry her.

Fisher and Venus decided to come up with a plan. He said, "There are two things we need to do." What were those two things?

• Find the philosopher.

• Get the water analyzed.

• Drink the rain water.

• Stop drinking the water.

What did Venus and Fisher notice about the water and the population of the city? (Hint: two answers are right!)

• They noticed the government was not saying anything was wrong with the water.

• They noticed a change between the people and the government

• They noticed that when the water shortage started, that people started acting differently.

• They thought the police were up to trouble.

Why did Fisher think something was wrong with the water?

• He smelled it and it smelled like gasoline.

• He looked at it and noticed it looked wrong and had a "slippery" consistency.

• They tasted it and it tasted like chemicals.

• They started to feel dizzy the more they drank it.