2. What qualities or experiences make her an appropriate candidate for judging us?

3. Why are the aliens left almost entirely offstage in the story?

4. We see most of the events in the story through Stevens's eyes. Is he a reliable witness? How would the story read if filtered through the perceptions of Gorce? Of Helena Johnson?

5. An important part of the megatext for this story is the endless flow of broadcast news. What does the story say about the transformation of experience into news?