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WorksheetsDark They Were Compare Test
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 14mins
Which statement best describes the effect of beginning the radio play version of “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” with an excerpt from the middle of the story text?
Because the excerpt is out of context, it makes little sense until the radio play reaches the middle of the plot.
Starting with this excerpt quickly establishes Mars as a threat and creates a feeling of dread in the audience.
Because the excerpt is out of context, it makes little sense until the radio play reaches the middle of the plot.
Because the excerpt is out of context, it makes little sense until the radio play reaches the middle of the plot.
Which of the following are the most significant differences between the story and the radio play version of “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed”?
The story features fewer characters than the radio play does.
The actors in the radio play interpret the characters’ traits and emotions differently from the way described in the story.
The radio play not only relies on the words of the text but also adds sound effects, music, and silence to bring the story to life
The adaptation for the radio play leaves out important information from the written story.
Both the story text and the radio play versions of “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” include Harry Bittering as a character. Which statement best explains how the two versions develop his character?
The radio play’s music and sound effects build on Harry’s thoughts and fears, which are not as well supported in the story text.
The radio play’s dialogue and the actor’s interpretation of it create a better sense of his feelings than the story text’s narration does.
The radio play’s music and sound effects build on Harry’s thoughts and fears, which are not as well supported in the story text.
The story text’s narration directly reveals Harry’s thoughts and feelings, which must be inferred through his dialogue in the radio play.
Which of the following words is a synonym of destroy?
uncover
ruin
upset
copy
Which of the following quotations from the text contains an example of personification?
The fear would not be stopped. It had his throat and heart.
“I feel like a salt crystal,” he said, “in a mountain stream, being washed away."
They saw the old cities, lost in their meadows, lying like children’s delicate bones...
The children, small seeds, might at any instant be sown to all the Martian climes.
Why can the following sentence be correctly called a metaphor? A river of wind submerged the house.
It shows that the house is near a river.
It makes the river and the wind seem like human beings.
It suggests that the wind is a powerful river.
It describes how wind can overpower solid objects.
Which of the following quotations from the text contains a simile?
And then the water can build on that skeleton—green things, deep water things, red things, yellow things.
A few tremblings shook him, but were carried off in waves of pleasant heat as he lay in the sun.
At any moment the Martian air might draw his soul from him.
The man felt . . . the tissues of his body draw tight as if he were standing at the center of a vacuum.
At the end of “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed,” what is the attitude of the lieutenant who has recently arrived?
He finds the environment on Mars unappealing.
He likes the Martians and believes they are peaceful.
He suspects the Martians’ involvement in the disappearance of the settlers.
He feels enthusiastic about the new settlement that the captain is planning.
Which of the following best states a major theme in “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed”?
Since we have limited resources on Earth, governments should look to other planets to meet our needs.
Humans are generally open minded and peaceful in their encounters with the unknown.
Though people often fear and resist it, change is unavoidable in the end.
Far-off worlds can be anything people imagine them to be.
In “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed,” what does the constant wind on Mars most likely represent?
the power of the environment to completely change the Earth people
the sadness that Mr. Bittering feels when he cannot return to Earth
the very hot weather on Mars that disturbs the Earth people
he destruction of the Earth people’s settlement on Mars
Which sentence best describes the Bittering family members at the conclusion of “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed”?
They are eager to return to Earth now that the atomic war is over.
They are different physically but still think and act like Earth people.
They are resigned to living on Mars but are unhappy with their lives there.
They are completely changed into Martians and have no memory of their past selves.
In “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed,” what does Mr. Bittering do to cope with his fears about living on Mars?
He investigates Martian ruins to understand them better.
He tries to build a rocket to take his family back to Earth.
He persuades his wife and family to return with him to Earth.
He spends time with other settlers, who talk him out of his fear.
In “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed,” what is Mr. Bittering’s first clue that his world is changing?
His children want to adopt Martian names.
His wife’s and his children’s eyes turn a golden color.
His peach tree sheds strange new blossoms.
His neighbors calmly accept all the changes around them.
Which event in "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” is most important in preventing the family’s return to Earth?
An atomic world war breaks out on Earth.
A rocket that Harry builds does not function.
The return ticket to Earth costs more than the family has.
The family is happy living on a farm in the new settlement.
What is Harry Bittering’s main emotion in the first half of “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed”?
He is angry at his wife for wanting to stay on Mars.
He is curious about the fate of the Martians.
He is annoyed by the other Earth people in the town on Mars.
He is afraid of being changed by the Martian environment.
