Comprehension Questions: Elara's Sun Project

To reconstruct the legendary Solar Engine

To build a new city

To find lost treasure

To travel to another planet

He wanted all resources spent on recycling

He believed in the myth of the real sun

He supported Elara's project

He thought the blueprint was fake

A small, desiccated seed and a brittle paper note

A map to Sector 7

A golden key

A new solar panel

The cradle

The engine

The ladder

The dome

Cultivating life, not building a machine

Building a bigger engine

Finding the lost elders

Escaping Sector 7

A desiccated seed

A solar panel

A blueprint

A flower

The weak, filtered light of the outer world

A real ghost haunting Elara

A new machine

A lost elder

Elder Tormund's leadership struggles to manage resources for the Sol-Keepers.

A community lives beneath a gray sky and dreams of rebuilding a powerful machine.

A girl risks her safety to find an observation dome at the highest point of her sector.

A determined girl shifts her focus from using technology to find power to nurturing a small seed, finding hope for the future and life.

The community relies heavily on recycling for all of its resources.

The story takes place in a setting with a 'synthetic sky' and a machine that draws power from a 'forgotten power source.'

Elara spends time studying an old, tattered blueprint.

Elara's struggle against Elder Tormund is a realistic power struggle.

Historical Fiction, because it involves a past generation’s blueprint.

Fantasy, because it deals with a powerful, legendary engine.

Science Fiction, because it involves a technological, often futuristic, setting and concepts like a synthetic environment.

Mystery, because Elara is trying to solve the puzzle of the hidden compartment.