A Sound of Thunder Review

Why does Eckels want to travel back in time?

• To escape the police

• To do scientific research

• To live in a simpler time

• To hunt big game

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

What kind of leader does President Keith seem to be ?

• peace-loving and democratic

• a puppet of the rich and powerful

• harsh and cruel

• mentally and physically weak

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CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

Travis asks the time travelers to follow several rules. By far, the most important of these rules is to...

• wear oxygen masks

• aim for the dinosaur's eyes

• stay on the Path

• take turns shooting

Why, according to Travis, must the time travelers be very careful not to kill any plants or creatures from the past?

• By changing anything in the past, they may greatly alter the future

• Some of the living things are important to human beings

• There is a government fine for killing things in the past

• They might harm themselves

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

When the dinosaur beings to attack Eckels

• Shoots it in the brain

• Becomes frightened and runs

• Shoots and misses

• Takes a picture

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is different about the sign on the office wall when Eckels returns?

• It has been replaced with a portrait of the new president

• The words are spelled differently

• It has been turned upside down

• It is in a new language

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CCSS.RL.8.1

What has Eckels done to change the course of time?

• He left a bullet in the dinosaur

• He killed a butterfly

• He removed his oxygen mask

• He stepped on the jungle grass

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.9A

The "sound of thunder" referred to in the last line of the story was

• a dinosaur falling

• an angry voice

• a violent stom

• a rifle shot

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.4

What literary genre is this story?

• Historical Fiction

• Drama

• Science Fiction

• Fantasy

"Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand

pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of

muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled

skin like the [armor] of a terrible warrior."

This quote uses this type of figurative language...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.5.5