Vocabulary & Phrases
This adjective describes something existing or occurring between planets.
What is interplanetary?
The story is told from this point of view.
What is Third Person?
The specific month when the children were always "good".
What is August?
The reason the "horse-spiders" feel safe in their cages.
What is the bars protect them from the humans?
The name of the Professor’s spaceship and attraction.
What is Professor Hugo’s Interplanetary Zoo?
A word meaning a feeling of fear and wonder.
What is awe?
The humans see the horse-spiders as "nightmares"; the horse-spiders see the humans as this.
What are creatures that wear garments and walk on two legs?
The number of hours the ship stays in Chicago.
What is six hours?
Based on the end of the story, what the "cages" are actually for.
What is protection for the creatures (not just to hold them in)?
The specific cost for a human to see the zoo.
What is one dollar?
To run with light, quick steps, as the creatures do on Kaan.
What is scurry?
How the "she-creature" reacts when her family returns.
What is happy/babbled a greeting?
The home planet of the horse-spider people.
What is Kaan?
The theme of the story is that this concept depends on your perspective.
What is "who is in the zoo" (or perspective)?
Two physical traits of the horse-spider creatures.
What is small, horse-like, chattering, or running up walls like spiders?
To "embrace" someone is to do this.
What is to hug or hold close?
How the little creature from Kaan feels about the trip to Earth.
What is it was "the best"?
The number of worlds the creatures visited on their trip.
What is eight worlds?
What the humans and creatures have in common regarding money.
What is they both pay to see each other?
Two cities on Earth (other than Chicago) that the ship visits.
What are New York, London, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong, or Tokyo? (Any two)
The little creature is called an "offspring," which means this.
What is a child or children?
The "Again and Again" phrase that both the humans and the little creature say.
What is "the very best Zoo (ever)"?
The length of time the ship was away from Kaan.
What is two months?
Why Professor Hugo might be considered a very clever businessman.
What is he gets paid by both sides (the humans and the aliens)?
The currency used by the people of Kaan.
What are commocs?