1. Hallucination Vocab Word: animation Symbol or Picture: My Meaning:
Dictionary Definition:
(1) act or process of giving life, motion, or spirit to something (2) quality of being alive or active (3) process of preparing animated cartoons
Sentence: The fans showed their animation by shouting and stomping.

2. Hallucination Vocab opposition neurophysiology Hallucination Inertia
Diminish
Rank
Caricature
Conviction
Telepathy
Manifestation
Insolent
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3. Questions Part One 1. Why is Sam on Energy Planet?
2. Why is Sam depressed about his assignment?
3. Where will Sam live on Energy Planet?
4. What rumor has Sam heard about the commander base?
5. What was Sam’s first choice of assignment? Describe this field of science.
6. What unusual events have been reported at the base?

4. Questions
Part two
1. Why do you suppose Sam feels free to laugh and criticize whoever- or whatever-is making the “cow”?
2. How is Sam’s “conversation” with the Other Sam similar or different from the way you communicate?
3. Why is a conversation that involves telepathy hard for Sam to adjust to?
4. What is the likely future of Energy Planet now that humans are there?
5. Why does Sam at first doubt that he can help? How does his attitude change?

5. Questions
Part three
1. What “proof” does Dr. Gentry have that Sam was not talking to something real outside the Dome?
2. Why does Sam say that the other apprentices don’t tell Dr. Gentry if they have a hallucination?
3. To what does Sam attribute the Commander’s illness? Why does the Commander think that Sam may have “mental problems”?
4. If you were in the Commander’s shoes, would you be inclined to believe Sam? Why or why not?
5. In lines , in what way does Sam fulfill the purpose given to him by Central Computer? In what ways does his new purpose suit his interest in neurophysiology?