A Sound Of Thunder

Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Reading Check

1. What kind of Safari does Time Safari Inc. arrange for their customers?

2. What is the name of the man guiding the Safari?

3. Rather than taking the dinosaur home as a “trophy,” what option do the hunters have to commemorate the hunt?

4. Besides mud, what does Eckels discover on his boot?

Multiple Choice

1. Who is elected President of the United States at the beginning of the story?

A) Deutscher

B) Keith

C) Lesperance

D) Travis

2. How is Deutscher described at the beginning of the story?

A) as a weakling

B) as an expert hunter

C) as a businessman

D) as a dictator

3. What might happen if someone steps off the path laid out by Time Safari Inc.?

A) They could change the course of history.

B) They might slip and fall.

C) They could get lost.

D) They might be unable to get back on the path.

4. Why can’t the men take back a portion of the dinosaur’s body as a trophy?

A) Time Safari doesn’t want the public to know they are shooting dinosaurs.

B) It would make too much of a mess in the time machine.

C) It needs to decompose naturally to avoid affecting the future.