‘A Sound of Thunder" Study Guide
Directions: Using the following word bank, choose the word that best completes the sentences that follow. Find
the four you completed and then ty to see if you can figure out the rest using your schema or context clues
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0. If a heavy load is light to carry, that is an example of a
Comprehension Questions
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2. How many people besides Eckels are on the trip? Name therm Gf ¢S
3. What does Travis tell Eckels is the best way to Kill a dinosaur?
4. How many years did the men travel?|
5. Why do the men wear oxygen helmet ae “A
6. What is unique about the dinosaurs that the men can shoot a :
7. Where was Eckels on his way to when he stepped off the pafn’aggy iss a?
8. What do Billings and Kramer do after the dinosaur is dead
9. What does Eckels notice about the sign on their return?| 5 re
10. What daes Eckels find on the bottom of his boots? PSe
‘11. What is the reader to infer that Travis does to Eckels?
12. When the time travelers, crossing the border between the past and the present, return to the
world of 2055, how has that setting changed?