All Summer in a Day

The feature of the setting that caused the biggest conflict (problem) for the character of Margot is...

• the story takes place in the future

• the story takes place in a school

• the sun only shines once every 7 years

• the story takes place on Venus

The children in the story disliked Margot for ALL of the following reasons EXCEPT...

• Margot might have the opportunity to move back to Earth in a year.

• Margot can remember the sun from her time living on Earth in Ohio.

• Margot's family is wealthy and she has lived a better life than her class.

• Margot was driven a little crazy by the rain and lack of sun on Venus.

At the end of the story, which word BEST describes how the children felt about their actions when they locked Margot in the closet?

• angry

• sad

• gleeful

• guilty

The children on Venus are affected by the weather in all of the following ways EXCEPT...

• The are allowed to play outside in the rain.

• They use sun lamps.

• They live in an underground city.

• They usually play in the underground tunnels.

Why are the students on Venus?

• As an experiment to see the effects of sunlight.

• Their parents are rocket men and women colonizing a new planet.

• To form a new race of people.

• They had to wait seven years for the next shuttle to Earth.

The arrival of the sunlight was first made clear by...

• The sound of Margot beating on the door.

• The smell of the outside world when the door opened.

• The flaming bronze color and blue sky.

• The deafening silence.

"Margot was a very frail girl...an old photograph dusted from an album." What does this description tell us about Margot?

• Margot lacks liveliness and energy.

• Margot is starved and unhealthy.

• Margot acts too old for her age.

• Margot dresses in an old-fashioned way.

Why did Bradbury set this story on Venus?

• To show how people behave differently in a new situation.

• To demonstrate how teachers do not always check carefully on their students.

• To show how waiting greatly increases the appreciation of an event.

• To demonstrate that cruelty to others can happen anywhere and anytime.

Which quote best supports that Bradbury created a gloomy/dreary mood in "All Summer in a Day"?

• "...and this was the schoolroom of the children..."

• "A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again."

• "Where's the teacher?"

• "They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes."

Which quote from "All Summer in a Day" is the best evidence to show the children's frenzied excitement?

• "Do the scientists really know?"

• "They stood looking at the door..."

• "It's stopping, it's stopping!"

• "They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes."