All Summer in a Day Quiz

What are the children waiting for as the story begins?

• a rainstorm
• the sun to shine
• early dismissal from school
• a snow storm

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CCSS.RL.6.1

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

• The children live on Venus.
• Scientists study the sun. 
• It has been raining for 7 years. 
• Children dream of the sun. 

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is one reason that the children treat Margot badly?

• She stays away from the jungle.
• She locks children in closets.
• She writes stories about weather.
• She might get to go back to Earth soon. 

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

When the sun comes out, the children

• think it looks like a lemon
• stay in the classroom and hide.
• run and play outside, in the jungle. 
• cry and wait for the rain to return. 

You can infer from the children’s “solemn and pale” faces after they come in from the rain that they

• are very tired from playing in the sun.
• feel guilty about locking Margot in a closet. 
• are sad to return to the classroom. 
• are upset to be all wet from the rain.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

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.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.4

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.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

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.RL.7.1

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.7.3

Something that is immense is

• clear
• wrong
• soft
• huge

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CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.4D

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4