G8Bi 6.1 Earth - A Gift Shop (Comprehension 1)
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- Q1Who is telling the story?
a god
an alien
a humana robot
30s - Q2What is the narrator trying to do?
he wants to share the achievements the humans have made
he is warning aliens not to come to Earth
he is showing people how amazing the Earth is
he is trying to get the reader to come to earth30s - Q3Why did Earth become a museum?
They founders thought they needed to save the whales.
The robots needed a place to keep humans as pets.
The founders wanted to get people to come to earth.The aliens wanted to show what humans were like.
30s - Q4Why did Earth become a gift shop?
they lost all the artifacts in the museum and so could only sell things to raise money
the museum burnt down and was replaced with a gift shop by the firefighters
they realized the gift shop was a big hit because people just wanted to buy thingsthey got an investment from some people on Mars who donated many things to sell
30s - Q5Why didn't the theme park work?
they thought people would pay more for the rides but people only wanted free rides
they misjudged the strength of the humans who rode on the rides
they didn't know how to build the rides correctly because they misjudged the g-forcesthey hoped they would become famous very quickly and suddenly but didn't
30s - Q6What are elements of science fiction in this story?
alternate realities
time travel
aliens and other planets
technology and the future30s - Q7Why did the story have a list of top selling items?
this story is actually a sales report
this story is actually a brochure30s - Q8What does enterprising mean?
Rejecting knowledge and hiding in a corner
Accepting challenges and taking initiative30s - Q9What is mandatory?
something that is helpful
something that is requiredsomething that is needed
something that is wanted
30s - Q10What is a hypothesis?
a guess that is random and completely unfounded
an explanation for something that can be tested30s - Q11What is science fiction?when an author explores unexpected possibilities of the past future
when an author writes a story about magic
when an author uses evidence to predict what will happen
30s - Q12What is theme?
a warning about the future that the author shares
a message that the author shares with the reader30s - Q13What word describes the author's tone in this story?Users re-arrange answers into correct orderJumble30s
- Q14
What the objects in the museum reveal about future Earth? (L29-41) (three letters)
People are uneducated and cannot appreciate ____________.
Users enter free textType an Answer30s - Q15What is most important to humans at this time in the future?Users re-arrange answers into correct orderJumble30s