"The Flying Machine" Review

When does this story take place?

• 400 A.D.

• The 19th century

• Present Day

In which country does this story take place?

• Russia

• South Korea

• China

Compare and Contrast how the Servant and Emperor react to the news of the flying man.

• The servant is worried and the emperor is reassuring and pleased.

• The servant is excited and the emperor acts bored or uninterested.

• The servant is amused and the emperor is afraid or fearful.

How does the emperor feel about the flying machine?

• He is impressed at the man's creativity

• He thinks it's a great idea for transportation

• He is worried that an evil man will use it for destruction

What does the emperor see as the difference between his invention (the miniature wind-up garden) and the inventor's flying machine?

• He has made a machine that is beautiful and the inventor has made a machine that is ugly

• His believes his machine is superior because it was made by an emperor, and he does not believe a commoner could make a machine better than his

• He is aware of the effects his invention may have while the inventor does not fully know what he has created and how it can be used.

What happened to the man who invented the machine?

• He was executed

• He was paid for his machine

• He was warned not to tell anyone else about it

Choose the text evidence that tells of the warning given to the servant and farmer if they speak of what they saw:

• "You have told me nothing at all"

• "You will be dead within the hour"

• "There are times one must lose a little beauty to keep what beauty one already has."

What concept does the emperor seem to value highly throughout this story? Hint: this word was repeated many times and was symbolized by the birds in his garden as well as the birds that flew away in the execution frame.

• Beauty

• Power

• Truth

Define SOLACE.

• Something that is related to the sun

• Comfort, or taking comfort in something

• The solution to a problem

Define HORDES.

• Piles of junk

• An enemy faction

• Crowds of people