All Summer in a Day Quiz

The word that best describes how Margot's classmates feel about her at the beginning of the story is...

• jealous
• friendly
• fearful
• worried

The setting of the story...

• could have been anywhere.
• contributes to the story's main conflict
• resolves the problem in the story.
• has nothing to do with the story's problem.

You can infer that the children feel ashamed when they remember about Margot because they

• run back into the classroom
• close the door on the falling rain
• look down at their feet and hands
• are startled when they hear the thunder

Something that is immense is

• clear
• wrong
• soft
• huge

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Which detail BEST shows that the story is Science Fiction?

• Margot lives on Venus
• Scientists study the sun
• Rain falls for seven years
• Children dream of the sun

All of the words describe William EXCEPT

• aggressive
• leader
• understanding
• jealous

Which quote from the story is an example of a metaphor?

• "Margot stood apart from them, from the children who could never remember a time when there wasn't rain."
• "It's like a penny," she said once, eyes closed."
• "The jungle was a nest of octopuses, clustering up great arms of weeds."
• "The rain stopped.  The sun came out."

The pale children savored the warm sunshine.
They...

• enjoyed it completely
• moved in a violent swelling motion
• a recoil after impact
• importance or relevance

The children surged toward Margot.
They...

• lessened; slowed down
• moved in a violent swelling motion
• were neccesary for life
• were weak and delicate

What are the children remembering when they dream of "gold or a yellow crayon or a large coin?"

• art class
• the sun
• the jungle
• the moon