Men Are Different questions

• Evaluator 1

  1.

  What is the narrator's profession?

  2.

  According to the narrator, what is the main difference between a man's skeleton and a robot's?

  3.

  The narrator concludes that the man he found had been alone for a long time because he had forgotten what?

  4.

  What does the narrator say that the men of old time had, that caused them to explore and establish new colonies?

  5.

  How in general does the narrator view the ``old days'' when men and their robots went out from earth into the universe?

• Evaluator 2

  1.

  What's an archaeologist?

  2.

  What business is the narrator (the Robot) in? (it's not ``men'')

  3.

  What's a "dead planet"?

  4.

  What gaps are being filled by Robots?

  5.

  What's a colony?

  6.

  Paraphrase the paragraph that begins with "Those were the shining days of the world...."

  7.

  How did a man who had forgotten how to talk complain about the heat?

  8.

  What does the Robot think is the reason for the Man's complaint?

  9.

  What is the real reason for the Man's complaint?

  10.

  Why does the Robot think the Man has a cut-off switch?

  11.

  Why did the Man become nothing but bones a year later?

  12.

  What conclusions can/does the Robot make about the Man?

• Evaluator 3

  1.

  Why didn't the last man start running again after being ``worked on'' by the robot?

  2.

  When were the ``shining days of the world''?

  3.

  How are Men and Robots similar?

  4.

  In what ways do they differ?

  5.

  What puzzles the narrator about Man?

• Evaluator 4

  1.

  What does the narrator want to find out about men?

  2.

  How does the narrator plan to find out about men?

  3.

  Give three details that the narrator knows about men from the historians.

  4.

  What detail does the narrator give that shows how robots and men are similar?

  5.

  What two things does the robot do to ``fix'' the man?

  6.

  In ``fixing'' the man, what mistaken assumption does the robot make?