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Andrew Park Literal - where were the arrows used? Inferential - Where is the Place of God located? Evaluative- What does it actually mean to eat knowledge fast? Is it necessary for this certain civilization to avoid the truth and not learn?

Jack Literal: What was 'father''s job? Inferenal: What perspective was this story written? Evaluative: What does each places and things that comes out in the story represent?

Justin

Literal: What does it mean by the "Dead Places"? Inferential: Why did father let John travel? Evaluative: In the story, why do some places were developed more than the other regions?

Insun Choi Literal - What was "Dead Places", "Great River", "Place of Gods", and other places in the story representing? (like real life places) Inferential - What is the author trying to convey from this story? What is his point? Evaluative - What did John learn from his trip? How does it relate to our current life?

Jenny Kim Literal- Where did John go for his journey? Inferential- What is the setting of this story (time period and/or place)? Evaluative- What do you think about learning the knowledge “fast”? Is there any benefits/problems that might occur when people learn or build knowledge quickly?

Minae Kwon Literal: What were the name of the main character's people? Inferential: Who are the "Dead People?" Evaluative: Do you agree that the vast and quick learning of knowledge is necessarily a negative thing?

Claire Y. __Literal Question__ 1. How did John find the Place of the Gods? 2. Who were the Forest People?

__Inferential Question__ 1. Looking at the ideas/concepts of the story, when was the story probably written and for what purposes?

__Evaluative Question__ 1. Why were the real people from history (Washington, Lincoln, etc.) known as gods in John’s society? 2. A priest is said to die in the Place of the Gods, while live in the Dead Places. What does this tell us? Kyu Park

Jay Jeong Literal: What is the "Dead Places" and what relation does it have to the father and the son? Inferential: What does ASHING and BILTMORE stand for, and what is its significance? Evaluative: What does "The Place of the Gods" being in ruins symobolize in today's world?
 * Literal -- What was John's job at the end of the story?
 * Inferential -- What characteristics did John possess?
 * Evaluative: Do you think eating knowledge too fast is bad? Refer to examples in the current society.

Michael Cho

Literal: What is the main character’s job? Inferential: What are the time period and the setting of this story? Evaluative: Why do you think the world of the Gods was destroyed? And how does this relate to the phrase “in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast”?

Sung-Woo Cho literal question: What is the job of his father? inferential question: What is the setting of the story? evaluative question: What did he learn from the journey?

Brendan Ryu **Literal:** Who was the dead man sitting in his chair in NYC?
 * Inferential:** Is the tme perios past, present, or future?
 * Evaluative:** Is learningknowledge fast always a bad thing?

Joshua Park

Literal: did the father succeed his journey in the past or not? Inferential: What was the 'machine that cooks food' but doesn't have any place to put fire in? Evaluative: why is the title of this story by the water of BABYLON?

Chris Kim

Literal: Where did John start his journey? Inferential: How does the setting of the story change as the story progresses? Evaluative: Would the story have changed meaning if the setting was not based on the United States?

Yunij L

Literal - What problems did John faced? Did he solve that problems? Inferential - Why father wants to keep secret what John saw from the Place of God? (why he didn't tell his knowledge) Evaluative - What does it mean by "we must build again"?