Creative Writing Scifi Midterm

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Who wrote "Rappacini's Daughter"?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Who wrote "The Machine Stops"?

E. M. Forster

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Who wrote "A Martian Odyssey"?

Stanley G. Weinbaum

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Who wrote "Reason"?

Isaac Asimov

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Who wrote "Desertion"?

Clifford D. Simak

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Who wrote "Thunder and Roses"?

Theodore Sturgeon

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Who wrote "That Only A Mother"?

Judith Merril

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Who wrote "Coming Attraction"?

Fritz Leiber

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Who wrote "All You Zombies"?

Robert A. Heinlein

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Who wrote "Day Million"?

Frederik Pohl

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Who wrote "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"?

Philip K. Dick

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Who wrote "Closer"?

Greg Egan

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Who wrote "Pretty Boy Crossover"?

Pat Cadigan

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Who wrote "Think Like A Dinosaur"?

James Patrick Kelly

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Who wrote "When It Changed"?

Joanna Russ

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Who is the main character of "Rappacini's Daughter"?

Giovanni Guasconti

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Who is the poisonous girl in "Rappacini's Daughter"?

Beatrice

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Who is Beatrice's father?

Doctor Giacomo Rappacini

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Who tries to warn Giovanni about Rappacini?

Professor PIetro Baglioni

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How does Giovanni kill Beatrice?

Giving her Baglioni's antidote

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Who is the main character of "The Machine Stops"?

Vashti

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Who is Vashti's son?

Kuno

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Where do people live in "The Machine Stops"?

Underground

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What do people seek in "The Machine Stops"?

Ideas

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What is Homelessness?

Being exposed to surface air as execution

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Why is Kuno threatened with Homelessness?

He went onto the surface and found people

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What is the first warning sign of the Machine stopping?

Problems with the music

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Why did pain return to humanity in "The Machine Stops"?

Euthanasia was out of order

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What happens first when the Machine stops?

People are killed by the silence

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Why does Kuno insist there will never be another Machine?

Humanity has learned its lesson

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Who is the main character of "A Martian Odyssey"?

Jarvis

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What does Jarvis call the alien he meets on Mars?

Tweel

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How do Tweel and Jarvis meet?

Jarvis saves Tweel from a dream-beast

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What does Jarvis steal from the pushcarts?

A crystal that destroyed diseased tissue

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Who is the main character of "Reason"?

Gregory Powell

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What robot did Powell and Donovan assemble?

QT-1 (Cutie)

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Who does Cutie believe made him?

The energy converter

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What does Cutie call the energy converter?

The Master

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What do the other robots at the station come to recognize Cutie as?

The Master's prophet

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Why do Powell and Donovan abandon trying to convince Cutie?

Cutie still perfectly performs his duties to obey "The Master"

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Who is the main character of "Desertion"?

Kent Fowler

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What planet is Fowler working to colonize?

Jupiter

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Who is Fowler's dog?

Towser

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What are Fowler and Towser turned into?

Lopers

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How do Fowler and Towser communicate?

Telepathically

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Why don't men return after being turned into Lopers?

They don't want to go back to their inferior existence

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Who is the main character of Thunder and Roses?

Pete Mawser

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Who is the singer against nuclear retaliation?

Starr Anthim

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How did Starr die?

Injuries from the bomb in Philadelphia

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Who is the main character of "That Only A Mother"?

Margaret Marvell

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Who is Margaret's husband?

Hank

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Who is Margaret's daughter?

Henrietta

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What is wrong with Henrietta?

She has no arms or legs

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When does "That Only A Mother" take place?

1953; during WWIII

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Why doesn't Margaret tell Hank about Henrietta's mutations?

She is in denial

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Who is the main character of "Coming Attraction"?

Wysten Turner

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What does Wysten save Theda from?

Having her clothes torn off by a car with hooks

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Why do women in America wear masks in "Coming Attraction"?

To create mystery and be fashionable

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Why does Theda ask Wysten to take her to England?

To get away from her abusive boyfriend

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Why doesn't Theda leave with Wysten?

She enjoys Zirk hurting her

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Who is the main character of "All You Zombies"?

Jane/The Unmarried Mother/The Bartender

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What is the bartender's relation to The Unmarried Mother?

The bartender is a future version of Jane/The Unmarried Mother

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How does The Unmarried Mother get his past self pregnant?

The bartender takes him back in time

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Who is the main character of "Day Million"?

Dora

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Where does Dora live?

Underwater

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Who does Dora marry?

Don

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What kind of man is Don?

Cybernetic

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How does marriage work for Dora and Don?

They exchange recorded analogues of each other and never see each other again

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Who is the main character of "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"?

Douglas Quail