A Sound of Thunder

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

• be young again

• hunt dinosaurs

• correct past mistakes

• learn how time machines work

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.W.8.9A

What kind of a leader does President Keith seem to be?

• peace-loving and democratic
• harsh and cruel
• a puppet of the rich and powerful
• a mental and physical weakling

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.9A

Why, according to Travis, must the time travelers be very careful not to kill any plants or creatures from the past?

• Because by changing anything in the past they might greatly alter the future
• Because there is a government fine for illegal hunting in the past
• Because some of the living things are important to human beings
• Because they might hurt themselves

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Travis asks the time travelers to obey several rules.  By far the most important of these rules is to

• wear oxygen masks
• stay on the Path
• aim for the dinosaur's eyes
• take turns shooting

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

"Step on a mouse and you crush the Pyramids. Step on a mouse and you leave your print, like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity." This warning is an example of which literary element?

• irony

• theme

• foreshadowing

• setting

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"The Machine howled. Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them."

This quote uses two types of figurative language. Which are they?

• simile and metaphor

• metaphor and personification

• simile and personification

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Time Safari hunts animals that are about to die anyway because

• it is easier to justify killing those animals.

• those animals are the least dangerous ones.

• those animals are the most dangerous ones.

• killing those animals is least likely to affect history.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.8

What is the first sound of thunder in the story? 

• Travis shooting Eckels
• The time machine malfunctioning
• The Tyrannosaurus rex 
• The crying of pterodactyls

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

"Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand

pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of

muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled

skin like the [armor] of a terrible warrior."

This quote uses this type of figurative language...

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• onomatopoeia

At what point is Eckels convinced that the Tyrannosaurus cannot be killed?

• from the very beginning of the story

• when Travis explains how to kill a dinosaur

• when Eckels sees the Tyrannosaurus the first time

• when the men begin shooting at the Tyrannosaurus

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.9A