The Martian Chronicles – Flashcards
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"The Earth Men": How does the little girl react to the men?
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Puts on an emotionless mask to prevent "infection" then plays with a spider toy
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"The Earth Men": Who sends the men to the insane asylum?
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Mr. Iii
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"The Earth Men": Who is excited about them?
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The Martians in the insane asylum
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"The Earth Men": What had everybody assumed about them?
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That they are crazy Martians
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"The Earth Men": How do Martians understand Earth men's language?
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Telepathy
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"The Earth Men": How do the people in the room change form?
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Hallucinations through telepathy signals
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"The Earth Men": What does Mr. Xxx assume about the captain's men?
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They are a part of the captain's hallucination
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"The Earth Men": Why doesn't the rocket convince Xxx?
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Thinks it's an extreme case of insanity
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"The Earth Men": How does Xxx "cure" the men?
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He shoots them because he thinks that they are "incurable"
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"The Earth Men": Why does Xxx kill himself?
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He thinks he got infected by the captain's insanity
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"The Third Expedition": Where does this rocket land?
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On the opposite side of where the previous two expeditions landed
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"The Third Expedition": Why is Black suspicious? Hinkston?
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Black-town looks exactly like a small American like the one he lived as a child Hinkston-American town with the same culture from 1927
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"The Third Expedition": What explanation does the captain have for the town?
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Thinks they have gone off track and accidentally landed back on Earth
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"The Third Expedition": Who does Lustig see?
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His grandmother and grandfather even though they died; "winked glitteringly," actually Martians
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"The Third Expedition": What does the captain see?
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His dead older brother who died when he was 26
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"The Third Expedition": What does the captain realize?
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In the middle of a Martian trap while spending the night with his "brother"
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"The Third Expedition": What happens to the captain?
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The "brother" kills him after Black screams twice
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"The Third Expedition": What happens the next day after all of the men die?
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A funeral for all sixteen men; the dead relatives cry as they start shimmering then transform into Martians
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"And the Moon Be Still as Bright": How do the Earth men defeat the Martians?
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Chicken pox
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"And the Moon Be Still as Bright": Why does Spender attack Biggs?
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Captain Wilder let the men drink, angering Spender
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"And the Moon Be Still as Bright": "We'll rip it up, rip the skin off, and change it to fit ourselves."
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Speaker: Spender Describes what Earth men will do to Mars
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"And the Moon Be Still as Bright": Why does Spender kill the four men?
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Doesn't want the men to destroy Mars
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"And the Moon Be Still as Bright": How did Martians combine science and religion?
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Through animals (animism)
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"And the Moon Be Still as Bright": How does Parkhill want to kill Spender?
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Blow his brains out
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"And the Moon Be Still as Bright": Who kills Spender? Why?
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Captain Wilder because he's the only one who understands him and doesn't want Spender to be killed by somebody who hates him
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"And the Moon Be Still as Bright": What is Captain Wilder's vow after he kills Spender? What action shows that he does this?
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Protect Mars from being trashed by men; When Parkhill is shooting at the Martian house windows, Wilder knocks his teeth out
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"The Green Morning"
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Benjamin Driscoll wants Mars to be full of trees to increase oxygen, resembles Johnny Appleseed
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"Night Meeting": To what does Pop compare Mars?
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A kaleidoscope because when you hold one up to the sun, it takes your breath away like Mars
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"Night Meeting": How do Tomás and the Martian travel?
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Tomás: truck Martian: a machine with six legs resembling a pray mantis draped in green diamonds
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"Night Meeting": What are both men unable to do?
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Touch anything; can see through each other's bodies
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"Night Meeting": How does Tomás's and the Martian's vision differ?
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Tomás sees the present of Mars-destroyed The Martian sees the past-Martian society, not invaded
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"Night Meeting": What do both men think after they part?
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Both think they've experienced either a vision or a dream
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"Way in the Middle of the Air": What are black people doing in the south?
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Building own rockets to go to Mars
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"Way in the Middle of the Air": How does Mr. Teece react to Belter leaving?
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Tries to stop him by saying he owes him $50
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"Way in the Middle of the Air": How does Belter get away with his debt?
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A group of 25 men pay for the debt to let Belter go to Mars
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"Way in the Middle of the Air": How does Mr. Teece deal with Silly?
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Tries to keep him, has a work contract; Grandpa Quartermain offers to take Silly's job
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"Way in the Middle of the Air": "What you goin' to do nights?"
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Speaker: Silly; Nights of lynching over
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"Usher II": Describe Stendhal's house
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Represents Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Fall of the House of Usher"
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"Usher II": Why were books burned in 1975? To what does this event resemble in the 1940s?
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A law was passed in which the government controlled books of fantasies; resembles Nazi book burnings
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"Usher II": Who is Pikes and how did he figuratively die?
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A former actor in fantasy movies; now cannot act and feels bitter like Stendhal
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"Usher II": How does Stendhal kill the members of the Society for the Prevention of Fantasy?
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Invites them to his house and kills them by inspired banned books and stories written by Poe
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"Usher II": Who is Garrett? How does he die?
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He is an investigator for Mortal Climates and is supposed to condemn the house; dies by being locked in chains and is left behind when Stendhal destroys house
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"The Martian": Why does the old woman tell the boy to go away?
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She is frightened by the boy and doesn't want to believe that is it her dead son Tom
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"The Martian": How does Tom differ from the Martians-as-humans in "The Third Expedition"?
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He wants to be accepted and loved
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"The Martian": What drives away Tom?
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When Mr.LaFarge points out that Tom is a Martian and asks questions doubting that Tom is really alive making the boy upset
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"The Martian": Why does Mr. Nomland kill himself?
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When he saw Gillings alive, the man he killed on Mars, he goes insane
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"The Martian": What is the trap about which Tom speaks?
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Tom getting chased by a family who thinks he is a deceased relative
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"The Martian": When Tom runs, what is he?
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He becomes a different dead person depending on what family sees him
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"The Martian": What kills Tom?
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He is over-strained from morphing too much at once and practically melts
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"The Martian": Why does LaFarge bolt the door after he looks outside?
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Wife got heartbroken, doesn't want it to happen again
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"The Off Season": Where is Captain Wilder?
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Said to be off on a rocket to Jupiter because he got kicked off of Mars so he couldn't interfere with the colonization
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"The Off Season": Why will the rockets have 100,000 Mexicans and Chinese?
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Represents the immigration workers in the US
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"The Off Season": Why does Sam Parkhill dislike Martians?
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He has a form of xenophobia
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"The Off Season": Why does Sam kill the Martian?
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He thinks the Martian will harm him
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"The Off Season": What do Elma's remarks reveal about her?
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Sam and Elma have a poor marriage, Elma dislikes him
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"The Off Season": What do the Martians want to tell Sam from the very beginning? Why do they do this?
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They are giving him half of Mars; Mars is pretty much worthless because nobody is going to come back
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"The Off Season": Why it is appropriate for Sam Parkhill to have a hot dog stand?
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Hot dogs have a sketchy reputation and you don't want to know what is inside of one; wiener-loser, jerk
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"The Off Season": What happens to Earth?
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Earth is burned up into flames
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"The Silent Towns": Why is the Earth man town, like the Martian towns, dead?
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The nuclear war started on Earth that prevented more people from traveling to Mars; Mars completely evacuated
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"The Silent Towns": How does Walter act the first week being alone on Mars?
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He acts as if nothing has happened; distraction from feeling isolated and lonely
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"The Silent Towns": How does Genevieve look and act?
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She's fat, unattractive, messy and untangled hair; She had no manners and is direct, especially to Walter
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"The Silent Towns": Why does Walter run?
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He thinks Genevieve is ugly and gets freaked out after she pulls out a wedding dress
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"The Long Years": Who does Hathaway speak to in the graveyard?
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Spender
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"The Long Years": What is the red flame?
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Captain Wilder's rocket
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"The Long Years": Why does Hathaway burn New New York?
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To guide the rocket to where he is located
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"The Long Years": Why does the wine run down his family's chins?
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They cannot consume foods or liquids because they are robots made by Hathaway
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"The Long Years": How did Hathaway's family die?
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An unknown virus
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"The Long Years": Why can't Wilder shoot the robots?
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Wilder explains that there will never be robots as life-like as these and be able to resemble emotions
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"There Will Come Soft Rains"
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Empty house like a robot; automatic routine goes on; Proves that nature goes on without humans
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"The Million-Year Picnic": What is the dad looking for?
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He is looking for rockets in the sky
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"The Million-Year Picnic": What explodes?
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The dad explodes the rocket because he doesn't want to go back to Earth
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"The Million-Year Picnic": What does "be careful of your sister" mean?
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The mother is expecting a girl
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"The Million-Year Picnic": Who are the Martians?
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The family: Mom, Dad, Timothy, Michael, and Robert
