All Summer in a Day

Which line best suggests that the speaker has animosity towards Margot?

• But this is the day, the scientists predicted...

• She'd better hurry; we'll miss it!

• Where's the teacher?

• Speak when you're spoken to.

Which two words best describe Margot’s feelings about the sun?

• worrisome and dutiful 

• afraid and ashamed

• reverance and joy

• fear and loathing

In this paragraph, the author includes the detail that Margot is frail to suggest that-

• She is likely to be an easy target for the other children's rage.

• She is likely to fight back against the group of children.

• She is likely to take a stand against oppressive situations. 

• She is likely to tell an adult about what is happening to her in the classroom. 

Why does the author write that it has been raining for "thousands upon thousands of days" and that a"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 Williams feeling about the sun.

• To emphasize what seven years of rain must seem like.

• To express what the landscape of Venus really looks like.

The word that best describes how Margot's classmates feel about her at the beginning of the story is...

• jealous

• friendly

• afraid

• frightened

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.

The setting of the story-

• could have been anywhere.

• contributes to the story's main conflict

• resolves the problem in the story.

• has nothing to do with the story's problem.

Which statement best explains how the rainy season affects Margot?

• She is pale, silent and thin.

• She likes to hide from everyone.

• Tunnels are her only comfort.

• Rain improves her poetry writing.

Which detail shows that the story takes place in the future?

• Margot lives on Venus

• Scientists study the sun

• Rain fall for seven years

• Children dream of the sun

Why does Margot refuse to shower in the shower rooms?

• Water will affect her skin

• Other students ridicule her and single her out.

• She wants the others to know she is not like them.

• It reminds her of the constant rain she has come to hate