All Summer In a Day Text Evidence Flashcard

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How did the children feel as they waited for the sun to appear?

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anxious and excited

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Which piece of evidence best supports your answer to the previous question? Options: a. She knew they thought they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands., b. Now the rain was slackening, and the children were crushed in the great thick windows. “She’d better hurry, we’ll miss it!”, c. And this was because she would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city., d. They all blinked at him and then, understanding, laughed and shook their heads.

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Now the rain was slackening, and the children were crushed in the great thick windows. “She’d better hurry, we’ll miss it!”

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How did Margot respond to her classmates locking her in the closet?

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She fought back and tried to get out of the closet.

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Which piece of evidence best supports your answer to the previous question? Options: a. He gave her a shove. But she did not move; rather she let herself be moved only by him and nothing else., b. They hated her pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness, and her possible future., c. Then, smiling, they turned and went out and back down the tunnel, just as the teacher arrived., d. They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door.

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They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the

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Why are William and the children jealous of Margot?

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because she came from Earth and likely will return

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Which piece of evidence best supports your answer to the previous question? Options: a. And once, a month ago, she had refused to shower in the school shower rooms, had clutched her hands to her ears and over her head, screaming that the water mustn’t touch her head., b. There was talk that her mother and father were taking her back to Earth next year; it seemed vital to her that they do so, though it would mean the loss of thousands of dollars to her family. And so, the children hated her for all these reasons of big and little consequence., c. 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., d. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives.

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There was talk that her mother and father were taking her back to Earth next year; it seemed vital to her that they do so, though it would mean the loss of thousands of dollars to her family. And so, the children hated her for all these reasons of big and little consequence.

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Which adjective best describes Margot in the story?

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lonely

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Which piece of evidence best supports your answer to the previous question? Options: a. They were all nine years old, and if there had been a day, seven years ago, when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world, they could not recall., b. And this was because she would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city., c. But that was yesterday. Now the rain was slackening, and the children were crushed in the great thick windows., d. 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.

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And this was because she would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city.