Answer TWO of the following:
Q1: Why might an airport be an advantageous place from which
to start a new civilization? Is it really a coincidence that the Museum
of Civilization Severn
City Clark to begin
collecting the Museum?
Q2: In the early days of the collapse, Elizabeth tells Clark,
“I’ve been taking art history classes on and off for years...[and] you see
catastrophe after catastrophe, terrible things, all these moments when everyone
must have thought the world was ending, but all these moments, they were all
temporary. It always passes” (248). In
this case, why might knowledge of history be important? What could it teach
you, or even help you understand about civilization and survival?
Q3: In Chapter 43, Clark more or less
explains why he collects seemingly useless objects for the Museum: “Consider
the mind that invented those miniature storms...Consider the white gloves on
the hands of the woman who inserted the snow globes into boxes...Consider the
signature on the shipping manifest when the ship reached port...” (256). What
is he getting at here, and why are these objects important to see and
contemplate, even when some of them, such as an I-pod, no longer have any use?
Q4: The airport eventually establishes its own school, which teaches all the abstract wonders of the past, such as airplanes, the Internet, and maps: “The children understood the dots on maps—here—but even the teenagers were confused by the lines. There had been countries, and borders. It was hard to explain” (262). What ideas do we still teach our children (and college students) which no longer completely make sense in the 21st century, but are considered vitally important? Do you understand why they are, or like the teenagers at the school, does it remain a mystery?
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