All Summer in a Day: Reading Comprehension
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10 questions
Read each question carefully and select the best answer.
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What mainly does the following passage from “All Summer in a Day” reveal about the inhabitants of Venus (paragraph 9)?
"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, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. 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, 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."
What mainly does the following passage from “All Summer in a Day” reveal about the inhabitants of Venus (paragraph 9)?
"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, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. 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, 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."
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The description below (paragraph 55) adds to the development of the setting mainly by __________.
"It was the color of stones and white cheeses and ink, and it was the color of the moon."
The description below (paragraph 55) adds to the development of the setting mainly by __________.
"It was the color of stones and white cheeses and ink, and it was the color of the moon."
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Which of the following selections best describes why the other students are mean to Margot?
Which of the following selections best describes why the other students are mean to Margot?
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Choose the sentence that would best add further descriptive detail to the passage below (paragraph 21)."They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes. Margot stood alone. 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. She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost. Now she stood, separate, staring at the rain and the loud wet world beyond the huge glass."
Choose the sentence that would best add further descriptive detail to the passage below (paragraph 21).
"They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes. Margot stood alone. 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. She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost. Now she stood, separate, staring at the rain and the loud wet world beyond the huge glass."
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Which selection best describes how the children ultimately (in the end) feel about locking Margot in the closet?
Which selection best describes how the children ultimately (in the end) feel about locking Margot in the closet?
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Which passage from the text best supports the answer to Question 5?
Which passage from the text best supports the answer to Question 5?
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Which of these inferences about William is best supported by the story?
Which of these inferences about William is best supported by the story?
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Which two details from the text best support the answer to Question 7?
Which two details from the text best support the answer to Question 7?
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Which meaning of repercussion most closely matches its meaning in the following passage (paragraph 49)?"It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling and finally cutting off all noise, all of the blasts and repercussions and thunders, and then, second, ripped the film from the projector and inserted in its place a beautiful tropical slide which did not move or tremor. The world ground to a standstill. The silence was so immense and unbelievable that you felt your ears had been stuffed or you had lost your hearing altogether."
Which meaning of repercussion most closely matches its meaning in the following passage (paragraph 49)?
"It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling and finally cutting off all noise, all of the blasts and repercussions and thunders, and then, second, ripped the film from the projector and inserted in its place a beautiful tropical slide which did not move or tremor. The world ground to a standstill. The silence was so immense and unbelievable that you felt your ears had been stuffed or you had lost your hearing altogether."
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Order these events chronologically as they occur in the story:
Other Answer Choices:
The students lock Margot in a closet.
The rains stop and the sun starts to shine.
A student shoves Margot.
Margot reads a poem about the sun to her classmates.