Answer the following 64 questions. Does not need to be in-depth answers, as long as the question is answered.
- What “moral obligation” does boss say each free person has? Why does each person have this obligation? In what ways can each person fulfill this obligation?
- Describe three specific details that clearly indicate this story is science fiction and takes place in the future.
- What reasons does Friday give for her interrogation being amateurish?
- Why is, “if they grab you, sing” a wise policy in boss’s organization?
- How does Friday smuggle goods as a courier?
- Why does Friday value being held in “high esteem” so much?
- What does boss consider the scarcest commodity AND what how does he explain its effect on organizations?
- What are the disadvantages of being an artificial person?
- Explain what is the “barnyard dance” that Friday mentions.
- Please explain one chief difference between a territorial state and a multinational.
- What is Friday’s primary motivation for joining the S-group?
- Please explain the prejudicial incident that serves as foreshadowing for how Friday is treated later on in the story
- How did Friday damage her relationship with Brian?
- What was the family’s verdict? Who delivered the decision? And what reason was Friday told – and in what tone of voice – about the family’s decision?
- How is the Tormey clan a soothing balm for Friday?
- How – and why – does Friday mirror her hostess?
- Why is the Tormey property unusual?
- Why were Friday and her hosts interrupted before going to bed on her first night there?
- Please describe/explain “Red Thursday.”
- Please describe the main characters in this scene and explain their relationships to one another: Janet, Ian, and Georges.
- Please name and describe the four different groups that claimed responsibility for the violence on Red Thursday.
- What does Janet say every woman knows but most men do not?
- Describe the escape route and its back-up defense.
- What was the first thing that Friday revealed that shocked her hosts?
- Give two reasons why Friday justifies her actions toward Lieutenant Dickey?
- What does Friday say that indicates a 1950’s male-chauvinistic narrative perspective?
- Georges says, “Oh, my dear! Who hurt you so badly?” when discussing Friday’s status as an AP. How does he convince her that she is human?
- Georges mentions that “no one knows much about California politics, including California politicians.” Give three reasons why he says that.
- What does this chapter tell you about how bureaucrats think and behave (in general)?
- Explain why Friday thought the second wave of assassinations did not involve her Boss’s organization.
- Friday discovers the purpose of the voyage upriver. How does that confirm what she and Georges had inferred about Chief “Warwhoop Tumbril”?
- What was Friday’s original plan to get back into the Imperium AND how did events alter those plans?
- Please explain what Mr. Hunter means when he says, “Bread cast upon the waters always comes back, miss.”
- Please explain the lucky break Friday got that allowed her to escape into British Canada.
- What was the significance of the thorn bushes at the end of the chapter?
- What are Friday’s views about credit cards?
- What does Trevor’s disappearance from their rendezvous reveal about prejudice shown in the novel?
- Boss says, “Your glands are no more mixed up than those of any healthy human – specifically, you do not have a redundant Y chromosome. All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts; those who know this and those who do not. Stop the stupid talk; it ill befits a genius.” Explain how this explanation relates to Friday in this part of the story, please.
- Explain what Boss means when he says, “Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules on sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.”
- What was Boss trying to turn Friday into AND what was her middle-of-the-night response?
- Why will Boss not try to stop the coming catastrophe from overtaking cities on earth?
- Explain the logic as to why Muriel was insistent that her husband, “Danny Boy,” not patent his new invention. And, please describe that new invention.
- Please explain Friday’s complaint about “the people’s right to know.”
- According to Boss, “what are the marks of a sick culture?” AND…What is the symptom of a dying culture?
- What does Boss’s letter reveal to Friday AND how did his salutation (ending) affect her?
- According to Friday, what type of lawyer is Gloria Tomosawa AND why does she that about her?
- Why did Friday feel so alone at the beginning of the chapter?
- Explain the two fortunate events that happened to Friday’s friends AND the reasons they were so fortunate.
- How does Friday characterize/describe Las Vegas?
- What does Goldie’s printout reveal?
- What mistake does Friday do that loses her a job?
- Explain Friday’s monetary dilemma and what are her plans to overcome them?
- How does Friday prove her identity and why can’t she use that revelation again?
- Please explain Friday’s mission to The Realm.
- What makes it possible for the spaceship to travel to all of the different planets?
- How many people are keeping an eye on Friday during this voyage AND who are they?
- What was the first hint that Friday was carrying her “item” in some place other than her plastic marsupial pouch?
- Please explain the scenario Friday predicts (at the end of the chapter) will actually happen to her.
- Why doesn’t Friday think she can get help from the Captain?
- What foreshadowing do you notice (with regard to names) toward the end of the chapter?
- How did Friday get into the migrant queue and “foul up the progress”?
- Please explain the “one for all, all for one” literary reference.
- Why did “the matter become academic” with regard to Friday’s package?
- What were the relationships – how did the main characters wind up – at the end of the story?
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