The Last Question \ The Lottery
Genre of "The Last Question"
What is science fiction?
A principal runs this school
This school is run by a principal
Used for facts that are always true.
What is the zero conditional?
She has just left the office.
What is the present perfect?
Poet who penned it
Who is Robert Frost?
Physical principle the story’s scientists want to reverse.
What is entropy (the heat death of the universe)?
A mouse ate my cheese
My cheese was eaten by a mouse
“If I were rich, I would travel the world.”
What is the second conditional?
They had never met before the conference
What is the past perfect?
Number of stanzas in the poem.
What is four?
Three-word biblical allusion that ends “The Last Question.”
What is "Let there be light?"
I am tearing this paper
This paper is being torn by me
Imagined past result.
What is the third conditional?
He ___ already ___ (eat) lunch when we arrived.
What is “had eaten”
Season implied in the poem
What is autumn \ fall?
Villager who cries “It isn’t fair!” just before the stones fly.
Who is Tessie Hutchinson?
We have visited Paris
Paris has been visited by us.
Verb form after “would have.”
What is a past participle?
Auxiliary verbs in the present perfect.
What are “have” or “has”?
Word repeated 3 times in the final stanza.
What is "I".
Folksy rhyme Old Man Warner quotes to defend keeping the ritual alive.
What is “Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon”?
Lior will teach us next year.
We will be taught by Lior next year.
If I had ___ more time, I would have finished.
What is “had”?
She had been waiting an hour before the bus came.
What is the past perfect progressive?
Two things that block the traveler's view
Undergrowth, bent road