Study Guide 1
Zelu's ethnicity.
What is Nigerian-American
This chapter title is an onomatopoeia for what Zelu experiences when a panic attack is incoming.
What is "Ting ting ting"
Reader's reception of Rusted Robots.
What is great/good/amazing?
Where Zelu goes to participate in the Exos Program.
What is MIT?
The main material exos are made from.
What is aerographene?
Zelu's firing offense.
What is criticizing a student's writing and making him cry.
This enormous spider-like robot tells Ankara the terrible information before sending her on a mission.
Who is Udide?
The NoBody inside Ankara
Who is Ijele?
Zelu is offended by this "insinuation" her mother makes when she tells her family about the Exos Program?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is, Zelu isn't special enough to be in the Exos Program.
People settled far from their ancestral homelands, voluntarily or involuntarily
From a Greek word meaning “to scatter” or “spread”
What is "diaspora"
Causes a big scene with Zelu during it's performance at the wedding.
What is a masquerade.
The terrible information Ankara learns from another scholar.
Chargers (space-traveling robots) flew into the sun, went crazy (becoming trippers), and are coming back to Earth to destroy it.
Zelu feels her autonomy is supported by this controversial invention.
Autonomous vehicles (self-driving cars).
The color of Zelu's exos, and how the color connects to Rusted Robots.
Zelu's exos are teal/cyan, which is the same color as the replacement legs Ngozi gave Ankara.
A robot dedicated to learning as much as possible.
What is a scholar?
The couple getting married at the start of the book
Who are Amarachi and Jackie
NoBodies reject this kind of existence while others embrace it.
What is corporeal?
The name of the 16-year-old Zelu befriended in the hospital and what he left Zelu as a parting gift.
Who is Tyrone, and a diamond encrusted gold-plated pen and a notebook.
What Zelu blames for her accident.
What is her own arrogance/herself.
The game Zelu was playing during the accident that paralyzed her.
What is The Hunger Games?
One of the famous Black woman authors Zelu claimed to have channeled when writing her first book.
Who is (any one of these authors):
- Toni Morrison
- Jamaica Kinkaid
- Audre Lorde
Zelu's father appears to have a strong connection to this. Share one example that illustrates this.
What is nature?
How Zelu gets the idea for the title of her book.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Tyrone calling himself a rusted robot?
The crew that watches the Nollywood Rusted Robots movie.
Zelu, Hugo, Marcy, and Uchenna.
Death of the Author dedication
What is "To my amazing sister Ngozi Chijioke Okorafor, Esp., 1973-2021"