All Summer in a Day

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1. What mainly does the following passage from “All Summer in a Day” reveal about the inhabitants of Venus (paragraph 9)? It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives.

• A. The inhabitants of Venus were all born there.
• B. Much like the planet’s forests, Venus’ schoolchildren have been affected by the planet’s constant rain.
• C. Venus is prone to natural disasters, including tidal waves and floods.
• D. The inhabitants of Venus all moved to the planet because they loved rain.

2. The description below (paragraph 55) adds to the development of the setting mainly by fill in the blank___________. It was the color of stones and white cheeses and ink, and it was the color of the moon.

• A. suggesting that the planet Earth and Venus are alike in terms of atmosphere and land
• B. describing things that could not be found on Venus
• C. explaining what is produced on the planet using provisions from the jungle.
• D. using imagery to depict Venus as black, white and gray

3. Which of the following selections best describes why the other students are mean to Margot?

• A. Margot lies about her memories of the Sun, leading the other students to resent her.
• B. They see her as an outsider and feel bitter towards her for being different.
• C. Her memories of the sun make her bratty and unkind.
• D. She tells everyone that the sun isn’t real.

4. Choose the sentence that would best add further descriptive detail to the passage below (paragraph 21). They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes. Margot stood alone. 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 her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair. She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost. Now she stood, separate, staring at the rain and the loud wet world beyond the huge glass.

• A. “Smiling, she appeared as bright as the absent sun she so regularly described.”
• B. “Margot gazed at her fellow students with wild, menacing eyes.”
• C. “Haunted and silent, she stared intently into the endless pound of the downpour.”
• D. “As the group of children became chaotic, Margot smirked, rolled her eyes, and turned back to the window.”

5. Which selection best describes how the children ultimately feel about locking Margot in the closet?

• A. They don’t remember having locked Margot in the closet just hours earlier.
• B. They feel guilt for having caused her to miss the sun’s brief appearance.
• C. They think it’s best that Margot missed it, since she’d already seen the sun.
• D. They hope Margot will forgive them.

6. Which passage from the text best supports the answer to Question 5?

• A. “She’s still in the closet where we locked her.”
• B. “They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor.”
• C. “Their faces were solemn and pale. They looked at their hands and feet, their faces down.”
• D. “They unlocked the door, even more slowly, and let Margot out.”

7. Which of these inferences about William is best supported by the story?

• A. William is deeply thoughtful.
• B. He loves life on Venus even without the sun.
• C. William shies away from violence.
• D. He represents the children’s general attitude towards Margot.

8. Which two details from the text best support the answer to Question 7?

• A. William shoves Margot, an act that is later repeated on a larger scale when the children push her into a closet.
• B. William refuses to believe Margot’s story and, later, tears it apart in front of the other children.
• C. William begs the other children not to shove Margot in the closet, but also avoids getting into a fight with any of them.
• D. William has no interest in the sun and plays lots of games in the tunnels of the underground city.