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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What type of safari does Time Safari, Inc. provide? | Time travel safari's. Travel in time to hunt extinct and rare game. |
| How do the men know which dinosaurs to shoot? | They are marked with a red paint. |
| How do they decide which dinosaurs to mark for shooting? | The dinosaurs who have no future; who will be dying soon. |
| What is on the bottom of Eckels' boot? | a butterfly |
| In the beginning, the men mentioned their joy at which person winning the election for President? | Keith |
| What is the last line of the story? What does it refer to? | a sound of thunder, the sound of the rifle shooting Eckles |
| Anti- is a prefix meaning "against." According to the description of Deutscher, what is he against? | anti-human, anti-intellectual, anti-Christ, anti-everything |
| "Eckels swayed on the padded seat, his face pale, his jaw still. He felt the trembling in his arms..." What is the mood? | nervous and scared |
| "Far birds' cries blew on a wind, and the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood." What literary device is the author using? | imagery |
| Cause: kill a mouse Effect: then a fox starves. (lines 130-139) Cause: the fox dies then what effect? | a lion starves |
| Cause: kill a mouse, the ultimate final effect is the ____________ would never have exist (lines 140-154) | the United States never existed |
| Whom might Travis be referring to as "his Royal Majesty? | Tyrannosaurus Rex |
| "Pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior" what does the simile describe? | how tough the Tyrannosaurus Rex's skin is |
| How does Eckels react when he sees the dinosaur? | He is afraid and runs. |
| What causes Eckels to step off the path? | He is dazed and blindly walked to the edge and steps off. |
| Mr. Travis voices concern about the effect to Eckels stepping off the path (cause). What were his initial concerns? | His company will lose thousands of dollars of insurance and lose their license to travel. |
| What is Eckels punishment for stepping off the path? | He had to dig the bullets out of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. |
| Upon returning, a description of Eckel's thoughts includes, "What sort of world it was now, there was no telling." Was there an effect caused by Eckles' mistake? | Yes |
| At the end of the story, who is President? | Deutscher |
| What is the "sound of thunder" refer to? | Tyrannosaurus Rex and the rifle shot that killed Eckels |
| What was the mood of the world before the time safari? | hopeful, cheerful. "Thank God Keith won. He'll make a fine President of the United States." Line 40 |
| What type of world did the time travelers return to? | a dictatorship. stressful. anxious, "If Deutscher had gotten in, we'd have the worst kind of dictatorship." Line 42 "We got an iron man now, a man with guts!" Line 461 |
| What is "mood" as a literary device? Define "mood." | Mood is the general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader |
| What is "tone" as a literary device? Define "tone." | Tone is the speaker's or narrator's attitude towards the subject |
| What type of figure of speech is: "(the dinosaur was) a great evil god." line 242 | metaphor |
| What type of figure of speech is: "Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone." | metaphor |
| What type of figure of speech is: "(The dinosaur had) pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior." | simile |
| What type of figure of speech is: "(The dinosaur had) arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys." | simile |
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