All Summer in a Day Reading Comprehension Quiz

At the beginning of the story, the children are waiting for...

• a rainstorm
• the sunshine
• an early dismissal
• a science experiment

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CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Which detail shows that the story takes place in the future?

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

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CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.SL.K.2

Which of the following is true of nine year-olds  children who have spent all their lives on the planet Venus?

• The children are always cruel to  those who don't fit in.
• The children have never heard a bird sing.
• The children grow up with no real memory of sunlight.
• The children speak a different language than English.

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CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RI.K.7

CCSS.RL.K.7

Why does the author write that it has been raining for "thousands upon thousands of days" and that a"a thousand forests had been crushed under the rain"?

• To show how much the children want to see the sun.
• To contrast Margot's and Williams feeling about the sun.
• To emphasize what seven years of rain must seem like.
• To express what the landscape of Venus really looks like.

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CCSS.RL.K.1

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

• jealous
• friendly
• afraid
• frightened

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CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.K.1

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.1.1

The children move slowly and hesitate to see Margot at the end of the story because-

• they can't bear to see her pale face again.

• they know they will get in trouble now.

• they are worried that Margot may not be where they left her.

• they know they have done a cruel thing to her and feel guilty.

The reader can infer that the children are ashamed about what they did to Margot because-

• They apologize to Margot.
• they tell their teacher what they did.
• they can't meet each other's eyes, and they hold their heads down.
• they help raise money to send Margot back to Earth.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

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.

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CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What conflict does the setting of this story create for Margot?

• She misses her old friends from Earth.

• She cannot live with her parents while she is on Venus.

• There is never enough light for her to see.

• She is depressed and alone without the sun.

Which answer choice best explains the setting of the story?

• In space

• On a new planet in the future

• On Venus

• On the planet Venus where it rains constantly