All Summer In a Day

A theme of this story is that children are _______.

• happy when they are playing with their friends

• cruel to people who are different

• kind to those who need help

• unwilling to admit a mistake

How does the constant rain on Venus affect the children in the story?

• it has made them sensitive to sunlight

• it has put them in a bad mood and made them mean

• it has changed the way people think and they have lost their imaginations

• it has made them doubtful the sun will even appear

How long has it been raining on Venus?

• four years

• seven years

• nine years

• two years

Why were the children on Venus?

• they were flooded off of Earth

• they were being educated by rocket men

• their parents were sent to set up a civilization

• they needed to start new lives

How old were most of children when the sun had come out before?

• nine

• two

• seven

• eleven

How did the author describe Margot using figurative language?

• she remembered, and it made her different

• screaming water shouldn't touch her head

• a frail girl

• she was an old photograph dusted from an album

What was Margot's biggest crime, according to paragraph 27?

• She had come to Venus only five years ago and remembered the sun

• she looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years

• she wrote a poem, and read it in a quiet voice

• she stared at the rain and stood separate from them

What did the children do to Margot?

• gave her a hug and told her it would be okay

• threw her in the shower to scream at the water

• beat her up in the tunnel

• locked her in a closet

How long would the sun be out on Venus according to the teacher?

• one hour

• two hours

• three hours

• all day

How did the author describe the jungle on Venus during the sun's visit?

• a silence so immense and unbelievable

• a nest of octopi, clustering up great arms

• the color of flaming bronze with blazing blue sky

• like animals escaped from their caves