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What type of safari does Time Safari, Inc. provide?   Time travel safari's. Travel in time to hunt extinct and rare game.  
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How do the men know which dinosaurs to shoot?   They are marked with a red paint.  
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How do they decide which dinosaurs to mark for shooting?   The dinosaurs who have no future; who will be dying soon.  
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What is on the bottom of Eckels' boot?   a butterfly  
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In the beginning, the men mentioned their joy at which person winning the election for President?   Keith  
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What is the last line of the story? What does it refer to?   a sound of thunder, the sound of the rifle shooting Eckles  
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Anti- is a prefix meaning "against." According to the description of Deutscher, what is he against?   anti-human, anti-intellectual, anti-Christ, anti-everything  
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"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  
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"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  
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Cause: kill a mouse Effect: then a fox starves. (lines 130-139) Cause: the fox dies then what effect?   a lion starves  
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Cause: kill a mouse, the ultimate final effect is the ____________ would never have exist (lines 140-154)   the United States never existed  
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Whom might Travis be referring to as "his Royal Majesty?   Tyrannosaurus Rex  
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"Pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior" what does the simile describe?   how tough the Tyrannosaurus Rex's skin is  
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How does Eckels react when he sees the dinosaur?   He is afraid and runs.  
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What causes Eckels to step off the path?   He is dazed and blindly walked to the edge and steps off.  
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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.  
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What is Eckels punishment for stepping off the path?   He had to dig the bullets out of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.  
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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  
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At the end of the story, who is President?   Deutscher  
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What is the "sound of thunder" refer to?   Tyrannosaurus Rex and the rifle shot that killed Eckels  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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What is "tone" as a literary device? Define "tone."   Tone is the speaker's or narrator's attitude towards the subject  
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What type of figure of speech is: "(the dinosaur was) a great evil god." line 242   metaphor  
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What type of figure of speech is: "Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone."   metaphor  
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What type of figure of speech is: "(The dinosaur had) pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior."   simile  
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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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