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'I Sing The Body Electric' Bradbury

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I Sing The Body Electric Bradbury game quiz
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1. The title "I Sing The Body Electric" comes from a poem. Just for fun, do you know who wrote the poem this line is from?
    Robert Burns
    Robert Frost
    Carl Sandburg
    Walt Whitman


2. In the story "I Sing The Body Electric" what is the motto of Fantoccini Ltd?
    We Shadow Forth
    Imagine A Summer That Would Never End
    Maidens and Flowers
    All The World In A Day


3. When the children's mother dies, what does father obtain from Fantoccini Ltd?
    A perfect robotic wife
    A humanoid electrical grandmother
    A rechargeable butler
    An electric-robotic nanny named Clara


4. When the mechanical birth-mechanism malfunctions, what does Peter and Polly's baby look like in "Tomorrow's Child"?
    Three-eyed blue pyramid with appendages
    It was invisible.
    Glowing ball with teeth and hands
    Green-skinned baby with bat wings


5. What was the only solution that Dr. Wolcott could offer to Peter and Polly?
    Destroy the child
    Send them to another dimension
    Use the baby as a lab rat
    Extensive surgery on the child


6. The time traveller comes back in time to pick-up what figure in "The Kilimanjaro Device"?
    Abraham Lincoln
    Ray Bradbury
    H.G. Wells
    Ernest Hemingway


7. The old man gets in touch with the time traveler.
    True
    False


8. What did Aunt Neva tell "The Burning Man" that she is carrying that scared him out of her car?
    Bibles in the trunk
    All of these
    Holy water in the carburetor
    Pistol with a silver bullet under the steering wheel


9. On the way back from the lake, what do Doug and Aunt Neva see in the road that makes them stop?
    Injured dog
    Little boy
    Elderly woman
    Local teenage boy


10. The hen laid two special eggs at "The Inspired Chicken Motel". One had the words 'Rest In Peace. Prosperity Is Near' on it, but what was on the other egg?
    Skull and horns of a longhorn steer
    'Humble. Terrific. Some Pig'
    An angel with out-spread wings
    'Rest Awaits The Weary'


11. Why were Doug, Skip, and their parents at "The Inspired Chicken Motel" in the first place?
    Their parents were caretakers
    Doug was sick, so they had to stop
    The car's radiator was boiling over
    It was a cheap place to stay


12. In the story "The Messiah" what was so unusual about a Bishop, a Rabbi, and a Priest getting together for dinner?
    They were on a spaceship orbiting a devasted Earth
    They were sitting on a terrace on Mars
    Each was an alien from another world
    All of them were women


13. That night what Divine Presence does Father Niven thinks he sees in the church?
    Virgin Mary
    Angels
    Christ
    St. John


14. Father Niven agrees to only let the Shape-Shifter go if it promises to do what?
    Never return to the town again
    Come back every Easter and assume the shape
    Let the Bishop and Rabbi see it also
    Allow him to convert the Martians


15. Which of these stories is not set on Mars?
    Night Call, Collect
    The Blue Bottle
    I Sing The Body Electric
    The Messiah


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Compiled Jun 28 12