California State Friday Science Fiction Novel by Robert Heinlein Questions Friday Reading Exam, book to reference is attached. Just need help with the questions please, this is not an essay.
Thanks!
Question 1
What “moral obligation” does boss say each free person has? Why does each person have this obligation? In what ways can each person fulfill this obligation?
Describe three specific details that clearly indicate this story is science fiction and takes place in the future.
Question 2
What reasons does Friday give for her interrogation being amateurish?
Why is, “if they grab you, sing” a wise policy in boss’s organization?
Question 3
How does Friday smuggle goods as a courier?
Why does Friday value being held in “high esteem” so much?
Question 4
What does boss consider the scarcest commodity AND what how does he explain its effect on organizations?
What are the disadvantages of being an artificial person?
Question 5
Explain what is the “barnyard dance” that Friday mentions.
Please explain the chief difference between a territorial state and a multinational.
Question 6
What is Friday’s primary motivation for joining the S-group?
Please explain the prejudicial incident that serves as foreshadowing for how Friday is treated later on in the story?
Question 7
How did Friday damage her relationship with Brian?
What was the family’s verdict? Who delivered the decision? And what reason was Friday told – and in what tone of voice – about the family’s decision?
Question 8
How is the Tormey clan a soothing balm for Friday?
How – and why – does Friday mirror her hostess?
Question 9
Why is the Tormey property unusual?
Why were Friday and her hosts interrupted before going to bed on her first night there?
Question 10
Please describe/explain “Red Thursday.”
Please describe the main characters in this scene and explain their relationships to one another: Janet, Ian, and Georges.
Question 11
Please name and describe the different groups that claimed responsibility for the violence on Red Thursday.
Question 12
What does Janet say every woman knows but most men do not?
Describe the escape route and its back-up defense.
Question 13
What was the first thing that Friday revealed that shocked her hosts?
Give two reasons why Friday justifies her actions toward Lieutenant Dickey?
Question 14
What does Friday say that indicates a 1950’s male-chauvinistic narrative perspective?
Georges says, “Oh, my dear! Who hurt you so badly?” when discussing Friday’s status as an AP. How does he convince her that she is human?
Question 15
Georges mentions that “no one knows much about California politics, including California politicians.” Give three reasons why he says that.
Question 16
What does this chapter tell you about how bureaucrats think and behave (in general)?
Question 17
Explain why Friday thought the second wave of assassinations did not involve her Boss’s organization.
Friday discovers the purpose of the voyage upriver. How does that confirm what she and Georges had inferred about Chief “Warwhoop Tumbril”?
Question 18
What was Friday’s original plan to get back into the Imperium AND how did events alter those plans?
Please explain what Mr. Hunter means when he says, “Bread cast upon the waters always comes back, miss.”
Question 19
Please explain the lucky break Friday got that allowed her to escape into British Canada.
What was the significance of the thorn bushes at the end of the chapter?
Question 20
What are Friday’s views about credit cards?
What does Trevor’s disappearance from their rendezvous reveal about prejudice shown in the novel?
Question 21
Boss says, “Your glands are no more mixed up than those of any healthy human – specifically, you do not have a redundant Y chromosome. All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts; those who know this and those who do not. Stop the stupid talk; it ill befits a genius.” Explain how this explanation relates to Friday in this part of the story, please.
Explain what Boss means when he says, “Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules on sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.”
Question 22
What was Boss trying to turn Friday into AND what was her middle-of-the-night response?
Why will Boss not try to stop the coming catastrophe from overtaking cities on earth?
Question 23
Explain the logic as to why Muriel was insistent that her husband, “Danny Boy,” not patent his new invention. And, please describe that new invention.
Please explain Friday’s complaint about “the people’s right to know.”
According to Boss, “what are the marks of a sick culture?” AND…What is the symptom of a dying culture?
Question 24
What does Boss’s letter reveal to Friday AND how did his salutation (ending) affect her?
According to Friday, what type of lawyer is Gloria Tomosawa AND why does she that about her?
Question 25
Why did Friday feel so alone at the beginning of the chapter?
Explain the two fortunate events that happened to Friday’s friends AND the reasons they were so fortunate.
Question 26
How does Friday characterize/describe Las Vegas?
What does Goldie’s printout reveal?
Question 27
What mistake does Friday do that loses her a potential job?
Explain Friday’s monetary dilemma and what are her plans to overcome them?
Question 28
How does Friday prove her identity and why can’t she use that revelation again?
Please explain Friday’s mission to The Realm.
Question 29
What makes it possible for the spaceship to travel to all of the different planets? (That is, what theoretical physics enables interstellar travel?)
How many people are keeping an eye on Friday during this voyage AND who are they?
Question 30
What was the first hint that Friday was carrying her “item” in some place other than her plastic marsupial pouch?
Please explain the scenario Friday predicts (at the end of the chapter) will actually happen to her.
Question 31
Why doesn’t Friday think she can get help from the Captain?
What foreshadowing do you notice (with regard to names) toward the end of the chapter?
Question 32
How did Friday get into the migrant queue and “foul up the progress”?
Please explain the “one for all, all for one” literary reference.
Question 33
Why did “the matter become academic” with regard to Friday’s package?
What were the relationships – how did the main characters wind up – at the end of the story?
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