All Summer in a Day

What are the children doing as “All Summer in a Day” opens?

• They are teasing Margot.

• They are reciting poetry.

• They are peering out a window.

• They are pushing Margot into a closet.

What do the details in this passage tell you about the author’s purpose?

It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water.

• He wishes to call readers to action.

• He wishes to create a mood.

• He wishes to amuse.

• He wishes to persuade.

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What does this passage from “All Summer in a Day” suggest about the setting?

A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus.

• Venus was a thousand years old.

• Venus had rain most of the time.

• There had never been forests in Venus.

• There were no forests in Venus.

What do the details in this passage tell you about Bradbury’s purpose?

And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up

civilization and live out their lives.

• He wishes to inform.

• He wishes to persuade.

• He wishes to question.

• He wishes to entertain.

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What does the following passage from “All Summer in a Day” say about Margot?

She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and 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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Why does Margot refuse to shower or let the water touch her head?

• She would rather be dirty than clean.

• She does not like to shower in public.

• She throws tantrums to get her way.

• She is being driven crazy by the rain.

In “All Summer in a Day,” what does Margot mean when she says, “But this is the day, the scientists predict, they say, they know, the sun... ”

• The sun appears at predictable times on Venus.

• The scientists are playing a joke on the people of Venus.

• Margot remembers the last time the sun appeared on Venus.

• The scientists know little about the appearance of the sun on Venus.

How do the children show their disrespect for Margot?

• They lose her in the tunnel.

• They force her to take a shower.

• They lock her in a closet.

• They push her out the door.

In “All Summer in a Day,” why do the children say “Yes!” when their teacher asks, “Are we all here?”

• They do not want to wait for Margot.

• They have forgotten about Margot.

• They are afraid to tell what they did.

• They want Margot to miss the sun.

What does the following passage tell you about the setting of “All Summer in a Day”?

The children lay out, laughing, on the jungle mattress, and heard it sigh and squeak under them, resilient and alive.

• The children have put their beds outside.

• Venus is covered with thick vegetation.

• The vegetation on Venus can talk.

• The vegetation on Venus is dangerous.