Characters
Plot
Vocabulary
The Machine
Miscellaneous
100

This mother lectures about Australian music and enjoys the work of the Brisbane school.

Who is Vashti?

100

Vashti travels to this place on the globe in the air-ship.

Where is Wessex?

100

 A large entrance or reception room or area.

ves_ _ _ u _ _

What is a vestibule?

100

This contains all the information about the machine, and it is used similarly to the Bible.

What is the Book of the Machine? 

100

The reason some children are Euthanized.

What is they will grow up to be too strong (and thus unhappy)?

200

This man leaves the machine without receiving an Egression-permit.

Who is Kuno?

200

Kuno wakes up here after being attacked by the mending apparatus.

Where is his room?

200

Rash impulsiveness.


imp _ _ _ u _ u _ n _ _ s

What is impetuousness?

200

This is how the machine fixes broken parts of itself.

What is the wormlike mending apparatus?

200

Kuno says this is the measure of things.

What is man?

300

This woman tells Vashti she is over the 'Roof of the World.'

Who is the air-ship attendant?

300

This led to the ultimate collapse of the machine.

What is the needed repairs for the mending apparatus?

300

Marked by care and persistent effort.

sed _ l _ us

What is sedulous?

300

This is where the air-ships dock.

What is a vomitory?

300

This is why it is basically worthless to travel.

What is everything looks similar everywhere?

400

A woman who hears a jarring noise (either in her head or in the wall).

Who is Vashti's friend?

400

This is how Kuno knows human life will not end with the machine.

What is he saw others outside when he left the machine?

400

Beg persistently and urgently. 


impo_ _ _ _ e

What is importune?

400

This is how the people in the machine see each other.

What is projected on blue optic plates?

400

People always ask others if they have had any of these recently.

What are ideas?

500

This man tells the people not to worry about the flaws in the mending apparatus and to wait patiently for its recovery.

Who is the famous lecturer?

500

Two developments late in the machines life cycle.

What are the abolition of respirators and the re-establishment of religion? 

500

Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of.


pall_ _ _ _

What is palliate? 

500

This handled part allows a character to slip outside the machine.

What is the stopper?

500

Two signs the Machine is falling into disrepair.

What is the moldy artificial fruit, the stinking bathwater, the defective rhymes of the poetry machine, the sighs in the music, the lack of beds when summoned, etc.