Setting
This is the name of the heavily controlled, sealed, and sterile environment where Brock lives.
What is the Dome?
Name the main characters of the story
Brock, Brog and the scientists
What's the genre of the story?
Science Fiction
True
Instead of eating actual cooked food or fresh meals, the people of the dome consume this.
What are food tablets?
When does the story happen?
In the future
Why did Brock want to leave the dome?
He wanted to experience the real world
When Brock met Brog, Brog was crying next to "something." What was that "something"?
Their Mother
Brock decides to let the scientists keep Brog for cloning.
False
Because no one in the dome is a natural parent, children are born here and raised by a Podmaster.
Research lab
How does the description of the outside environment evolve as Brock explores further?
Brock initially expects a toxic wasteland based on dome propaganda, but he discovers a clean, lush, and living world.
Why do the scientists want to clone Brog?
Because they think she's the last dog, and want to continue with the species
What did Brock have to do to save Brog from the scientists?
Pretend that Brog has rabies
At the end of the story, Brock drinks water from a brook.
True
The estimated number of travel hours Brock requested from customs for his external scientific research.
1800 hours
Where does Brock and Brog live at the end of the story?
Outside the Dome
How does Brock change from the beginning of the story to the end?
Brock starts experiencing new feelings
This is what scientists believe about the outside world that keeps the Dome residents fearful of leaving.
What is that it is toxic, poisonous, or that anyone who leaves never returns
When Brock first feels the warmth of the sun outside the dome, his emotional scanner immediately identifies the sensation as "pleasant."
False
Those who are suspected of questioning the system or leaving the dome are referred to by this label.
Deviant
How does the setting act as the main antagonist (the opposing force) in the first half of the story?
The dome setting acts as an antagonist through its psychological control. It uses strict customs rules, fear-based warnings of a "dead" world, and rigid environmental suits to restrict Brock's freedom and curiosity.
Who were the people in the "Ancient fictions"?
Us, people in the past
The specific reason Brock’s podmaster had to requisition a scanner from "storage" rather than an active lab.
"hardly anyone ever used it now"
The fast-food item that the researchers feed Brog is a real beef hamburger saved from the pre-dome era.
False It is a synthetic food item called a "McLike" burger, showing the dome only has artificial replications of old world food.
Why does Brock ultimately choose to use a biological threat (faking rabies) rather than logic, data, or ethical arguments to convince the researchers to let him and Brog leave?
He realizes the dome's society operates entirely on fear and preservation, making a threat to their physical safety the only leverage they will respond to.