All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury

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 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 had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her 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.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

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."

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

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 likes to hide from everyone.

• She is pale, silent, and thin.

• Tunnels are her only comfort.

• Rain improves her poetry writing.

You can infer that the children feel ashamed after they come back inside because they...

• ave blue faces from the light.

• close the door on the falling rain.

• look down at their hands and feet.

• are startled when they hear the thunder.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

The setting of the story...

• could have been anywhere.

• contributes to the story's main conflict.

• resolves the problem of the story.

• has nothing to do with the story's problem.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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.

Why does the author write that it has been raining for "thousands upon thousands of days" and that 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.