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The machine stops (Edison,Kate,Omar)

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

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Class
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1.

How do people live on this "New World"?

a)

In a giant machine that always stays on the sky and never touches the ground

b)

Under the ground where they can breath easily because of their ability given to them

c)

lives underground and relies on a giant machine

d)

lives with other humans on the surface of the earth but on isolated on a machine

2.

What is the relationship between Vashti and Kuno?

a)

they are married together

b)

mother and son

c)

2 close friends who lives together

3.

What is Vashti's connection with others?

a)

she likes to be surrounded with people

b)

she prefers to talk face to face

c)

she isolated herself and doesn't waste time talking to people

4.

Which was the main conflict between Vashti and kuno?

a)

because he had visited the surface of the earth

b)

debating if surface area is toxic or not

c)

because Kuno didn't like books

d)

because he didn't want to meet Vashti

5.

How is homelessness described on Vashti's and Kuno's society?

a)

heaven

b)

punishment to death

c)

award for respecting the rules

d)

people who doesn't have a place to live

6.

who created the machines?

a)

aliens

b)

they were created by themselves

c)

humans

d)

it was there before civilization started

7.

Where do people on this society believe?

a)

god

b)

machines

c)

aliens

8.

What did Kuno discovered outside in the surface of earth?

a)

there were human living without the machine

b)

there was only animals living there

c)

there was no life as described on their society

d)

it was true that he could not breath without protection

9.

Why Vashti didn't believe Kuno when he said that the machine was stopping?

a)

Kuno was a lair and she never believed him

b)

it was something absurd that never happened before

c)

Kuno had said it before and never happened

10.

What were the first signs that made Vashti understand that the machine was really stopping?

a)

troubles with the music

b)

the machine exploded

c)

the failure of the sleeping apparatus

d)

the battery needed to get charged

11.

What can be the theme of the story?

a)

technology is the best for civilization

b)

humans are always wrong for technology

c)

travelling makes people smart

d)

if technology takes over the humans is dangerous and uncontrollable