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All Summer in a Day

Authored by Stormy Mayfield

English

5th - 8th Grade

Used 306+ times

All Summer in a Day
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain..."


What is the meaning of compounded?

erased

quieted

added

flew

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"...with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands."


What is the meaning of concussion?

force

surprise

disinterest

indifference

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"But that was yesterday. Now, the rain was slackening, and the children were crushed to the great thick windows."


What is the meaning of slackening?

drying

slowing

dying

speeding

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

" 'Well, don't wait around here!' cried the boy, savagely. 'You won't see nothing!' "


What is the meaning of savagely?

happily

annoyed

wildly

stupidly

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling and finally cutting off all noise, all of the blasts and repercussions and thunders..."


What is the meaning of repercussions?

echoes

consequences

silences

shocks

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"The world ground to a standstill. The silence was so immense and unbelievable that you felt that your ears had been stuffed or you had lost your hearing altogether."


What is the meaning of immense?

insignificant

small

wrong

enormous

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"They stopped running and stood in the great jungle that covered Venus, that grew and never stopped growing, tumultuously even as you watched it."


What is the meaning of tumultuously?

noisily

dreamily

lazily

stunningly

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