All Summer In A Day Leon1

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.

What is the best evidence for Bradbury creating 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?"
• ". . . the sweet crystal fall of showers. . ."

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."

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

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

Which statement best explains how the rainy season affects Margot?

• She is pale, silent, and thin.
• She likes to hide from everyone.
• Tunnels are her only comfort.
• Rain improves her poetry writing.

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.

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 William's feelings about the sun.
• To emphasize what seven years of rain must seem like.
• To express what the landscape of Venus really looks like.

One reason the children treat Margot badly is because she...

• stays away from the jungle.
• locks children in closets.
• writes poetry about the rain.
• might get to return to Earth.

When the sun comes out, the children...

• compare it to a penny.
• return to the classroom.
• play in the pale jungle.
• wait for the rainfall.

The children are looking through the window because...

• people in rockets will by flying near.
• the constant rainfall is so unusual.
• they are waiting for the sun to come out.
• scientists are outside performing experiments.