All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury

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

• They are teasing Margot

• 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

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

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 mean and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives.

• He wishes to entertain

• He wishes to persuade

• He wishes to question

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 the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair.

• Margot had been out in the rain for years

• Margot is pale and delicate

• Margot's eyes have no color

Why does Margot refuse to shower or let the water touch her head?

• She would rather be dirty than clean

• 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 a predictable time on Venus

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

• Margot remembers the last time the sun appeared on Venus

How do the children show their disrespect for Margot?

• The lose her in the tunnel

• They force her to take a shower

• They lock her in a closet

Why do the children say "Yes!" when their teacher asks, "Are we all here?"

• They do not want to wait for 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:

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

• The children have put their beds outside

• Venus is covered in thick vegetation

• The vegetation on Venus can talk.