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    What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?

    They must have learned all the basic subjects taught in a school. The chapter mentions the teaching of geography, arithmetic and history.

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    “I wouldn’t throw it away.”
    (i) Who says these words?
    (ii) What does ‘it’ refer to?
    (iii) What is it being compared with by the speaker?


    (i) Tommy said these words.
    (ii) 'It' refers to the television screen, on which you could read over a million books.
    (iii) Tommy is comparing the television screen to the real books in earlier times in which words were printed on paper. He thought that after reading such books, one would have to throw them away. However, he would never have to throw away his telebooks.
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    What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?

    The teachers who taught Margie and Tommy were mechanical teachers. They had large black screens on which all the lessons were shown and questions were asked. These mechanical teachers had a slot in which the students had to put their homework and test papers. They had to write their answers in a punch code and  the  mechanical teacher calculated the marks immediately.
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    “Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”
    (i) Who does ‘they’ refer to?
    (ii) What does ‘regular’ mean here?
    (iii) What is it contrasted with?

    (i) They refer to the students who studied in the old kind of schools centuries before the time the story is set in.
    (ii) Here, the 'regular' teacher refers to the mechanical teacher who teaches Tommy and Margie.
    (iii) The mechanical teacher is compared to the teacher , who was a human being and taught centuries ago.
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    Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?

    Margie’s school was a virtual school in her house. It was located right next to her bedroom. No, she didn't have classmates because the school was personalized for her.
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