Zoo questions

• Evaluator 1

  1.

  On what date does the zoo come to Chicago?

  2.

  The inhabitants of Kaan look most like what earth animal?

  3.

  After leaving Chicago, the zoo will visit what city the next day?

  4.

  When the inhabitants of Kaan return to their home planet, we learn that their perception of the visit to earth differs in what way from the earthlings' perception of the same event?

  5.

  What can we surmise is Professor Hugo's real motive for running this traveling ``zoo''?

• Evaluator 2

  1.

  ``...especially when it began to get near the twenty-third,'' what does it refer to?

  2.

  What does ``the twenty-third'' refer to?

  3.

  Who is Professor Hugo?

  4.

  Why does Professor Hugo encourage the customers to tell their friends about the zoo?

  5.

  What's a ``she-creature''? Is it the same thing as a ``horse-spider'' creature?

  6.

  How much money did Professor Hugo collect in Chicago?

  7.

  Why were the horse-spider creatures of Kaan traveling on Professor Hugo's spaceship?

  8.

  Was Professor Hugo's spaceship more like a traveling zoo or a tour bus?

• Evaluator 3

  1.

  What did the bars protect the horse-spider creatures from?  

  2.

  Why is the title, ``Zoo'', ironic?

  3.

  Who got the best deal of all in this story?

  4.

  What was in the Interplanetary Zoo?

  5.

  What did the children in Chicago get so excited about?

• Evaluator 4

  1.

  Why are the children always good in August?

  2.

  Name three types of creatures the crowd had been treated in the past.

  3.

  What is the reaction of the crowd to the exhibit Hugo that brings this last time?

  4.

  What do the earth people feel about the zoo when it leaves?

  5.

  Why isn't it dangerous for the horse-spider creatures when they visit earth?  

  6.

  What is the irony in the last line of the story?