Vocabulary
What word means supreme or dominant?
paramount
Say a sentence that contains alliteration about the story.
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What is the rule regarding EDS stowaways?
Physical laws regarding fuel and weight
What is Barton's mission?
take fever serum to a group of settlers
How does the author create suspense?
by repeatedly referring to the time kept on the chronometer
What word means drew back in fear, surprise, or disgust?
recoiled
Say a sentence with allusion about the story.
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Why does Barton choose to jettison Marilyn?
not doing so means death for both of them and others as well
What is the story's theme?
survival can demand hard choices
third-person limited
What word means accustomed to something difficult or painful?
inured
Say a sentence that contains parallelism about the story.
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Why is Barton shocked when he discovers the stowaway?
it is a young girl
Why does Barton wait until the last possible minute to jettison Marilyn?
He is trying to give her time to accept the situation.
Which character can be described as compassionate?
Barton
What word means small increases:
increments
How does the story's rigid scientific framework serve as a metaphor for larger philosophical themes about human survival?
It demonstrates that emotional considerations are irrelevant in scientific decision-making
It suggests that space exploration is fundamentally inhuman
It reveals the inherent conflict between human compassion and universal physical laws
It proves that technological progress eliminates human empathy
It reveals the inherent conflict between human compassion and universal physical laws
What emotion does Marilyn experience while waiting to be jettisoned?
fear, guilt, disbelief
What does the narrator's voice serve to do?
increase the story's horror
Whom does naive describe?
Marilyn
What word means irreversible?
irrevocable
What ethical dilemma does Barton's decision to jettison Marilyn most profoundly represent?
The inevitability of sacrificing the weak for the strong
The bureaucratic nature of space exploration protocols
The superiority of rational thinking over emotional reasoning
The conflict between individual survival and collective responsibility
The conflict between individual survival and collective responsibility
The narrator's voice is best described as __________.
calm
How does Marilyn react when she first realizes the seriousness of her situation?
asks questions
How does the story's narrative perspective contribute to the emotional complexity of the moral dilemma?
By emphasizing Barton's internal psychological struggle
By generating sympathy through Marilyn's perspective
By presenting a detached, clinical description of an impossible choice
By creating dramatic irony through an omniscient narrator
By presenting a detached, clinical description of an impossible choice