Worksheets"Who Can Replace a Man?" Review
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 12mins
At the start of "Who Can Replace a Man?" what is the setting?
a green, lush hillside
a gray, worn out field
a barren, cracked wasteland
a remote mountain cave
What clue does the author of "Who Can Replace a Man?" give to suggest that the field-minder is not human?
He makes the field-minder roll, not walk.
He gives the field-minder clicking noises.
He refers to the field-minder as "it".
He calls the field-minder a robot.
In "Who Can Replace a Man?" what prevents the seed-distributor from giving seed potatoes to the field-minder?
Its arms have become locked in place.
The machine that unlocks the storage area has not arrived.
The seed potatoes have been poisoned by chemicals.
There are no seed potatoes left.
In "Who Can Replace a Man?" why does the field-minder turn over topsoil when the land should have time to rest between plantings?
It thinks the land can produce a crop.
It is forced to work by the penner.
It loves its work.
It follows the orders it was given.
In "Who Can Replace a Man?" why do some machines in the station yard shout and hoot?
They are playing a game after work.
They are starting a revolution.
They have had no orders about work.
They are laughing at the field-minder.
In "Who Can Replace a Man?" how is the penner different from the field-minder?
It is smaller and does clerical work.
It is smaller and works in the city.
It has a Class One Brain.
It can read maps.
In "Who Can Replace a Man?" what has happened to the humans?
They have started a world war.
They are all living in the city.
They have died of starvation.
They have left for another planet.
In "Who Can Replace a Man?" what are machines with a higher-class brain able to do?
They can move easily over the land.
They have larger vocabularies and think ahead.
They can read instructions and discuss strategy.
They have a sense of humor.
In "Who Can Replace a Man?" why do the machines release the radio operator from its room?
because it orders them to release it
because they are friends with it
because they want to smash its building
because they want its company
How does the geography change as the machines in "Who Can Replace a Man?" travel cross-country?
The fields become lusher.
The climate gets warmer.
The land becomes cracked and eroded.
The machines cross shallow rivers.
In "Who Can Replace a Man?" how is the countryside safer for the machines than the city?
The land is flatter and easier to negotiate.
There are few machines to fight.
Forested areas provide cover.
Airplanes are dropping bombs in the city.
Why does the quarrier in "Who Can Replace a Man?" keep repeating the same sentence?
Its brain cannot go beyond a certain level.
It thinks other machines did not hear it.
It has been damaged in a fight.
It is trying to become the leader.
In "Who Can Replace a Man?" what information does the flying machine announce?
Some men are still alive in the cities.
Man has been replaced.
More men have arrived from a far planet.
Some men are still alive in the mountains.
In "Who Can Replace a Man?" how do the machines respond when the penner falls and breaks?
They put it back on the top if the quarrier.
They leave it and continue on.
The servicer repairs it.
The flying machine lifts it out.
In "Who Can Replace a Man?" what do the machines do when the surviving man turn to them?
They destroy him.
They ask him for help.
They take him back to the city.
They follow his order to find food.
Someone who has dexterity is
afraid of change.
careless in ice and snow.
skillful with his or her hands.
receptive to new ideas.
