"A Sound of Thunder" Review

Eckels travels with Time Safari because he wants to---

• be young again
• correct past mistakes
• hunt dinosaurs
• learn how time machines work

At the beginning of the story, what event has just occurred?

• Time Travel has been outlawed

• Eckels just killed a monkey

• Eckels has just gotten a new job

• Keith has been elected president

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The men who travel back in time are told they must--

• stay on the safari path
• not shoot animals with red paint on them
• promise not to tell anyone what they see
• maintain a strict diet a week before departure

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When Eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he--

• immediately opens fire
• runs away in a blind panic
• attacks the other hunters
• changes his mind about the safari

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Travis is angry with Eckels because--

• he thinks Eckels is an arrogant fool
• Eckels stepped off the path
• he and Eckels are old rivals
• Eckels has attacked other humans

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In this story the future is altered because--

• Travis left Eckels behind
• the dinosaur was killed
• the wrong man won the presidency
• Eckels didn't follow instructions

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The climax of the story occurs when--

• Travis orders Eckels out of the time machine
• Eckels kills a butterfly
• the tree falls on the dinosaur
• we learn the results of Eckels's actions

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What do A Sound of Thunder and the excerpt from Jurassic Park have in common?

• Both stories feature modern people among prehistoric dinosaurs
• Both stories were written by Ray Bradbury
• In each story people travel through time
• In each story prehistoric dinosaurs come to life

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In Jurassic Park, what causes the situation Tim and Lex are in?

• They can't remember the command that controls the dinosaurs
• They don't know how to return to the present from the past
• Dinosaurs who have broken free attack the car they are in
• The car accidentally strays inside the dinosaur-park fence

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Diction is the--

• main conflict in a story
• choice of words in a piece of writing
• mood that a story evokes
• time and place a story is set

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