"A Sound of Thunder" Review

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

• Time Travel has been outlawed
• Deutscher has been elected president
• Eckels has just gotten a new job
• Keith has been elected president

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

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

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

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

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

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

A story's mood refers to--

• the events that a story's characters experience
• the sentence structure the author uses
• the feeling or atmosphere the story evokes
• the story's genre, or the kind of literature it is

The mood of A Sound of Thunder can be described as--

• tense and frightening
• past and present
• somber and serious
• science-fiction and adventure

Which sentence contains an example of figurative language?

• "Unbelievable," Eckels breathed, the light of the machine on his thin face.
• He felt the trembling in his arms, and he looked down and found his hands tight on the new rifle.
• Eckels, balanced on the narrow Path, aimed his rifle playfully.
• Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers.

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