All Summer In A Day

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.

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.

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.

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.

Which is true about 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.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Why does Margot refuse to shower in the shower rooms?

• Water will affect her skin and appearance

• Other students ridicule her and single her out when she takes a shower

• She wants the others to know she is not like them

• It reminds her of the constant rain she has come to hate and it is traumatizing

Which quote from the story is an example of a metaphor?

• "Margot stood apart from them, from thee children who could never remember a time when there wasn't rain."
• "It's like a penny," she said once, eyes closed."
• "The jungle was a nest of octopuses, clustering up great arms of weeds."
• "The rain stopped.  The sun came out."

What does the following evidence suggest about Margot from "All Summer in a Day"? "She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from here eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from here hair."

• Margot has been out in the rain for years.

• Margot is pale and delicate.

• Margot's eyes have no color.

• Margot no longer wears lipstick.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

What 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."

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Why don't the other students like Margot?

• Margot picks on William.
• Margot's experiences are very different than the other students'.
• Margot thinks she is better than the others.
• Margot does not like to take showers.