Dome Life
What is the main reason people live inside the dome?
Answer: What is because they believe the outside world is dangerous, poisoned, or dead? (Accept: To stay safe from the outside).
What kind of animal is Brog, and where did Brock find her?
Answer: What is a puppy (dog) found outside the dome next to her dead mother?
Why do the dome scientists want to take Brog away from Brock?
Answer: What is to perform experiments/cloning tests on her?
Is the story set in the past, present, or future?
Answer: What is the future?
What warm, wet sensation does Brog give Brock that confuses his dome suit sensor?
Answer: What is a lick on the face / wet kiss?
Name TWO items or pieces of gear Brock must wear when he leaves the dome.
What are a dry suit, helmet, scanner, or gloves?
How did Brock choose the name "Brog"?
Answer: What is he combined his own name (Brock) with the sound the puppy made ("rog")?
What disease do Brock and Brog pretend to have to trick the scientists?
Answer: What is Rabies?
(Conflict): What is the main Person vs. Society conflict in the story?
Answer: What is Brock fighting against the strict rules/scientists of the dome to save Brog?
What sensory detail (seeing, hearing, smelling) surprises Brock the most when he takes off his helmet outside?
Answer: What is feeling the real wind/air, tasting fresh water, or hearing trees/brooks?
How do people in the dome get their food and water?
Answer: What are food pellets/concentrate and recycled water?
What surprising reaction does Brog have when Brock offers her real food instead of pellets?
Answer: What is she loves it / licks his hand (she prefers real food/nature)?
What specific action does Brock take to make Brog bite him in the lab?
Answer: What is he bites Brog’s tail first?
(Theme): What is a central lesson or theme of "The Last Dog"?
Answer: What is real love/connection and freedom are more important than safety and technology?
Why were the scientists afraid of Rabies?
Answer: What is because it is a deadly disease that could spread and wipe out the dome population?
How does the story end for Brock and Brog?
Answer: What is they are turned out of the dome and go live together in the outside world?
(Point of View): Is the story told in First Person ("I") or Third Person ("he/she")?
Answer: What is Third Person Limited (focusing on Brock's thoughts)?
What word describes a society that seems perfect on the surface but is actually cold, controlled, and restrictive (like the dome)?
Answer: What is a Dystopia (or dystopian setting)?