11-12 Theme | Central Idea | Plot | Finding Evidence | Summary

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24 questions
Note from the author:
Here is the pre-assessment for 11th and 12th grade over identifying a theme, finding evidence, plot, and summarizing.
Read the text, and then answer the questions that follow.

A Sound of Thunder

by Ray Bradbury
Fiction
Published 1952

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Which statement identifies the main theme of the short story?

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Which detail from the text best supports the previous answer?

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Which statement identifies a secondary theme from the story?

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Which evidence best supports your answer to the previous question?

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How are the details of Travis' explanation about how they should behave in the past important to the story's main theme?

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How is Ray Bradbury's, the author, plot development important to the development of the secondary theme?

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How do Eckel's actions while he is in the past develop the plot of the passage?

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Which quote from the text best supports your answer to the previous question?

Complete the plot diagram (Freytag's Pyramid) for A Sound of Thunder.
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What is the title of the text?

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What is the genre?

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What is the exposition?

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What is the initiating event?

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What is one event in the rising action?

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What is another event in the rising action?

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What is the climax?

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What is an event in the falling action?

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What is a another event in the falling action?

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What is one more event in the falling action?

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What is the resolution?

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What is the setting?

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What is the author's purpose?

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What are some conflicts in the story?

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What is a theme from this story?

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Write a two to four sentence summary of the story.