Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Comprehension Questions "A Sound of Thunder"



  1. The penalties for disobeying instruction is franchise of 10,000 dollars and possible government action which is a business authorized to sell a company's goods or services.
  2. If Deutcher had won the election some people wanted to go back to 1492 since not a lot of people liked him.
  3. Travis tells Eckels, the best way to kill a dinosaur is to "Put your first shot into the eyes.....Go back into the brain."
  4. The men travelled sixty million, two thousand and fifty five years back in the past.
  5. The men has to stay on the metal antogravity path since it's supposed to prevent them from touching any part of the past in any way. If they don't they physically change the present and the future.
  6. The men's clothes were sterilized, so that all the bacteria were removed from their clothes,  before they had the journey.
  7. The men wear oxygen helmets so that their bacteria does not harm anything in the past.
  8. The unique thing about the dinosaurs that the men can shoot them is that they would anyway die in the future.
  9. Eckels jokingly and playfully aimed the rifle.
  10. Eckels says "it could reach up and grap the moon?" when he sees the size of the dinosaur.
  11. The men know which dinosaur to shoot because they have red paint on them.
  12. Billings and Krammer throw up after the dinosaur is dead.
  13. Travis makes Eckels get the bullets out of the T-Rex in order to go back with them.
  14. Eckels notices that the spelling on the sign has changed on their return.
  15. Eckels finds a dead butterfly under his boot.

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