WorksheetsAll Summer in a Day Review
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
The feature of the setting that caused the biggest conflict (problem) for the character of Margot is...
the story takes place on Venus
the sun only shines once every 7 years
the story takes place in a school
the story takes place in the future
The children in the story disliked Margot for ALL of the following reasons EXCEPT...
Margot might have the opportunity to move back to Earth in a year.
Margot can remember the sun from her time living on Earth in Ohio.
Margot's family is wealthy and she has lived a better life than her class.
Margot was driven a little crazy by the rain and lack of sun on Venus.
At the end of the story, which word BEST describes how the children felt about their actions when they locked Margot in the closet?
angry
sad
gleeful
guilty
The children on Venus are affected by the weather in all of the following ways EXCEPT...
The are allowed to play outside in the rain.
They use sun lamps.
They live in an underground city.
They usually play in the underground tunnels.
Why are the students on Venus?
As an experiment to see the effects of sunlight.
Their parents are rocket men and women colonizing a new planet.
To form a new race of people.
They had to wait seven years for the next shuttle to Earth.
The arrival of the sunlight was first made clear by...
The sound of Margot beating on the door.
The smell of the outside world when the door opened.
The flaming bronze color and blue sky.
The deafening silence.
"Margot was a very frail girl...an old photograph dusted from an album." What does this description tell us about Margot?
Margot lacks liveliness and energy.
Margot is starved and unhealthy.
Margot acts too old for her age.
Margot dresses in an old-fashioned way.
Why did Bradbury set this story on Venus?
To show how people behave differently in a new situation.
To demonstrate how teachers do not always check carefully on their students.
To show how waiting greatly increases the appreciation of an event.
To demonstrate that cruelty to others can happen anywhere and anytime.
Which quote best supports that Bradbury created 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?"
"They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes."
Which 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.
Rain falls for seven years.
Scientists study the sun.
Children dream of the sun.
Which statement best explains how the rainy season affects Margot?
She likes to hide from everyone.
Tunnels are her only comfort.
She is pale, silent, and thin.
Rain improves her poetry writing.
You can infer that the children feel ashamed after they come back inside because they...
have blue faces from the light.
look down at their hands and feet.
close the door on the falling rain.
are startled when they hear thunder.
The setting of the story...
could have happened anywhere
resolves the problem in the story.
contributes to the story's main conflict.
has nothing to do with the story's conflict.
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 Bradbury 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.
One reason the children treat Margot badly is because she...
stays away from the jungle.
writes poetry about the rain.
locks children in closets.
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.
You can infer from the children's "solemn and pale" faces after they come in from the rain that they...
feel tired from playing.
are ashamed of what they did to Margot.
must go back to their classroom.
are soaking wet from the rainstorm.
Which of the following is true of nine year old children who have spent all of their lives on the planet Venus?
The children have no real memory of sunlight.
The children are cruel to those who don't fit in.
The children have never heard a bird singing.
The children speak a different language than English.
One theme of the story might be...
children learn by examples, not by books.
people who are different often suffer at the hands of others.
life in the future will not necessarily be better.
most people don't appreciate the simple things in life.
This story was written in 1954 by Ray Bradbury. Why would it not be believable anymore?
Kids don't like to read science fiction anymore.
We know what the surface of Venus is like now.
There are many stories that are better than this.
A female protagonist is not believable in science fiction.
"Sometimes, at night, she heard them stir, in REMEMBRANCE, and she knew they were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with." What is another word that means the same as REMEMBRANCE?
forgotten
memory
Which word best fits in the blank? "Now the rain was __________, and the children were crushed in the great thick windows."
savor
slackening
solemn
surged
"They turned on themselves, like a FEVERISH wheel, all tumbling spokes." Which definition BEST fits the word FEVERISH?
serious
machine
lessen
excited
"They SURGED about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door."
hugged
crowded
waved
cried
Which word best fits in the blank? "The children lay out, laughing, on the jungle mattress, and heard it sigh and squeak under them __________ and alive."
resilient
remembrance
surged
avalanche
"Their faces were SOLEMN and pale." Which definition best fits the word SOLEMN?
excited
disorderly
serious
feverish
