All Watched Over by Machines

How does Vashti live?

• Alone in a small room, hexagonal in shape, lighted by window not by lamp.

• Vashti lives with his son, and are happy.

• Vashti lives in the streets as a homeless people.

How does Kuno and Vashti communicate?

• Vasthi and Kuno lived together

• A kind of video-call where they get to see each other.

• Phone call that the machine provides them.

What do Vashti used to believe?

• visiting the surface of the Earth and having direct contact is brainless and feeble ­minded.

• Machine is Useless and it's not worthy having it.

• There is no such thing as a Government.

What is it like for Vashti when she leaves her room?

• Reality begins to soothe her, and she realizes she was scared for nothing.

• She is terribly excited, and she realizes that she is glad to visit her son.

• Reality makes her nervous, and she realizes she prefers artificial life in her room.

• She is frustrated over how much easier life is near the surface then down in her room

What happens when Vashti saw the sun?

• she thinks about how once humans controlled nature, they became bored and went underground.

• she thinks about how humans kept trying in vain to conquer nature before going underground.

• she embraces its beauty and begins to see the merits of life outside the machine.

• she thinks she is disgusted by the light, but her body actually responds positively to it.

Why did Kuno really want to see his mother?

• to tell her without interference that he broke the machine’s rules and might be killed for it

• because he wants her help finding a secret way out of the machine

• because he missed seeing her face, as his odd upbringing has made him more sentimental than others

• to describe to her his plans to destroy the machine and the machine committee

What happened in the end of the story?

• Kuno and Vashti die in the machine, but the homeless save many of the people living in the machine.

• all human life on earth is wiped out by the machine, while a crashing airship kills Vashti and Kuno.

• Kuno and Vashti manage to escape and go off to live with the homeless survivors on the surface.

• those in the machine die, including Kuno and Vashti, but Kuno believes the homeless will save mankind.

What does homelessness mean?

• It is a punishment in which the machine send people to the surface area, and people die.

• People who live in the street.

• People who are protected from their governments.

What does Kuno think of his trip to the surface?

• He believes he can survive as a “homeless” person because he saw another living person on the surface.

• He thinks it was a waste because he was returned to the machine and there’s no way to escape again.

• He realizes that the surface is as hopeless as the machine and that it’s better to die in comfort in the machine.

• The machine has control of all life on the surface, as well as life beneath the surface of the earth.

Which of the following can be the theme of the story?

• Human are useless.

• relying too much on the technology is dangerous

• Technology is really good for everyone

• Without technology, Life is not useful.