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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhy don't the other students like Margot?Margot picks on William.Margot's experiences are very different than the other students'.Margot thinks she is better than the others.Margot does not like to take showers.
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the best evidence for Bradbury creating a gloomy/dreary mood in "All Summer in a Day"?". . . and this was the schoolroom of the children. . . "“A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. ""Where's the teacher?"". . . the sweet crystal fall of showers. . ."
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhat does the following evidence suggest about Margot from "All Summer in a Day"?
"She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair."Margot has been out in the rain for years.Margot is pale and delicate.Margot's eyes have no color.Margot no longer wears lipstick. - 4. Multiple Choice
What quote from "All Summer in a Day" is the best evidence to show the children's frenzied excitement?"Do the scientists really know?""They stood looking at the door. . . ""It's stopping, it's stopping!""They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes." - 5. Multiple ChoiceWhich detail shows that the story takes place in the future?Margot lives on Venus.Scientists study the sun.Rain falls for seven years.Children dream of the sun.
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhich statement best explains how the rainy season affects Margot?She is pale, silent, and thin.She likes to hide from everyone.Tunnels are her only comfort.Rain improves her poetry writing.
- 7. Multiple ChoiceYou can infer that the children feel ashamed after they come back inside because they...have blue faces from the light.close the door on the falling rain.look down at their feet and hands.are startled when they hear the thunder.
- 8. Multiple ChoiceThe setting of the story...could have been anywhere.contributes to the story's main conflictresolves the problem in the story.has nothing to do with the story's problem.
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe children move slowly and hesitate to see Margot at the end of the story because-they can't bear to see her pale face again.they know they will get in trouble now.they are worried that Margot may not be where they left her.they know they have done a cruel thing to her.
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhy does the author write that it has been raining for "thousands upon thousands of days" and that a"a thousand forests had been crushed under the rain"?To show how much the children want to see the sun.To contrast Margot's and William's feelings about the sun.To emphasize what seven years of rain must seem like.To express what the landscape of Venus really looks like.
- 11. Multiple ChoiceOne reason the children treat Margot badly is because she...stays away from the jungle.locks children in closets.writes poetry about the rain.might get to return to Earth.
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhen the sun comes out, the children...compare it to a penny.return to the classroom.play in the pale jungle.wait for the rainfall.
- 13. Multiple ChoiceYou can infer from the children's "solemn and pale" faces after they come in from the rain that they...feel tired from playing.are ashamed of what they did to Margot.must go back to their classroom.are soaking wet from the rainstorm.
- 14. Multiple ChoiceThe children are looking through the window because...people in rockets will by flying near.the constant rainfall is so unusual.they are waiting for the sun to come out.scientists are outside performing experiments.
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is true of nine year-old children who have spent all their lives on the planet Venus?The children are always cruel to those who don't fit in.The children have never heard a bird sing.The children grow up with no real memory of sunlight.The children speak a different language than English.
- 16. Multiple ChoiceThe children lock Margot in the closet because...they want Margot to think only about the rain.they don't want Margot to know about the warmth of the sun.they are worried that Margot will get sunburned.they are jealous of Margot for remembering what the sun is like.
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhat conflict does the setting of this story create for Margot?She misses her old friends from Earth.She cannot live with her parents while she is on Venus.There is never enough light for her to see.She is depressed without the sun.
- 18. Multiple ChoiceOne of the main ideas of the story is that...children learn by examples, not by the book.people who are different often suffer at the hands of others.life in the future will not necessarily be better.most people don't appreciate the simple things in life.
- 19. Multiple ChoiceIn the following sentence, what does the word tumultuously most likely mean?
"They stopped running and stood in the great jungle that covered Venus that grew and never stopped growing tumultuously, even as you watched it."in a peaceful wayin an orderly fashionin a comical fashionin a confused way - 20. Multiple ChoiceThis story is not plausible anymore. Why is that?Kids don't like science fiction anymore.We know what the surface of Venus is like now.There are many stories that are better than this.No one likes female protagonists.
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