Sunday, May 1, 2011

Chapter 1

House of the Scorpion - Chapter 1
Chapter 1 – In the Beginning


The scene takes place in a laboratory where Eduardo, a technician, attempts to clone humans from cells frozen over 100 years ago. All but one of the clones do not survive. The one that survives grows to become an infant, and does not have his intelligence blunted, which is what is typically done to most clones. This is so because this clone is a clone of an important character, Matteo Alcaran.

Comprehension Questions

1.    What is the setting of this chapter?

2.    What is Eduardo trying to do?

3.    How old are the frozen cells?

4.    How many of the cells survived the process?

5.    What happens to most clones? Why didn’t it happen to this clone?

7 comments:

  1. 1. The setting of this chapter is the laboratory where the cells are worked on
    2. Eduardo is trying to make it so that the cells turn into embryos and are born.
    3.The frozen cells are over one-hundred years old.
    4.One cell survived the process of being born.
    5.Most clones have their intelligence blunted and become eejits. The one clone didn't because it comes from a special person.

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  2. 1. The setting is a science lab.
    2.Edwardo is trying to keep cells alive, so that they can grow into clones.
    3.They are over one hundred years old.
    4.One cell survived.
    5. They loose there intellect.

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  3. 1) The setting is in a laboratory.
    2) Eduardo is trying to use human tissue from Mateo Alacran to grow a clone of him.
    3) The frozen cells are over 100 years old.
    4) Only one cell survived.
    5) The intelligence of most clones is blunted, but Mateo Alacran's clone doesn't have that done because the original Mateo Alacran didn't want it to be done.

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  5. this is bad need more explainin and add a summery , just bad no help

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  6. It may help if there's some more information. This is disappointing

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  7. (1) Eduardo is at a lab trying to make a clone with cells.
    (2) He is trying to make a clone.
    (3) 100 years
    (4) 1 cell
    (5) They become Eejits. Matt was made from a unique person that knows his stuff.

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