Dark They Were and Golden Eyed

What was Harry Bittering's main emotion in the 1st half of the story?

• Curious

• Angry

• Afraid

• Annoyed

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What event was must important in preventing the family's return to Earth?

• The family was happy living on the farm

• The ticket back cost too much

• The rocket that Harry built broke

• An Atomic world war breaks out on Earth

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What was Mr. Bittering's 1st clue that things were changing around him?

• His children want to adopt Martian names

• His garden grows green roses and purple grass

• His family's eyes turn golden

• His neighbors are calmly accepting the changes around them

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CCSS.RL.7.1

What is a major theme in the short story “Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed”?

• Humans are generally open minded and peaceful in their encounters with the unknown.

• Far-off worlds can be anything people imagine them to be.

• Since we have limited resources on Earth, governments should look to other planets to meet our needs.

• Though people often fear and resist it, change is unavoidable in the end.

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At the very end of the story what is the attitude of the lieutenant that has just arrived with the rescue team towards the martians?

• He finds the Martians unappealing.

• He likes the Martians and believes they are peaceful.

• He suspects the Martians’ involvement in the disappearance of the settlers.

• He dislikes the Martians and is unsure of them.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

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Which quote best supports that the lieutenant likes the martians and believes they are peaceful?

• "Dark people. Yellow eyes. Martians. Very friendly....I'm sure our relations will be most friendly with them, sir."

• "The Captain established headquarters in an abandoned bar. His lieutenant came back to report."

• "Six, eight hundred, I'd say, living in those marble ruins in the hills, sir. "

• They hadn't the foggiest notion of what happened to this town or its people."

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CCSS.W.7.9A

What is a simile?

• compares 2 apparently unlike things using the words like or as

• compares 2 apparently unlike things by saying that one thing is the other.

• a comparison in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a metaphor?

• compares 2 apparently unlike things using the words like or as

• compares 2 apparently unlike things by saying that one thing is the other.

• a comparison in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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Which of the following quotations from "Dark they were and Golden Eyed" contains a similie?

• "The man felt....the tissues of his body draw tight as if he were standing at the center of a vacuum."

• "At any moment the Martian air might draw his soul from him."

• "A few tremblings shook him, but were carried

• "And then the water can build on that skeleton-green things, deep water things, red things, yellow things."

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Why can the following sentence from "Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed"be correctly called a metaphor? A river of wind submerged the house.

• It makes the river and wind seem like human beings

• It describes how wind can overpower solid objects.

• It suggests that the wind is a powerful river.

• It shows that the house is near a river.

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