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Who are the main characters in A sound of thunder short story?
Mr. Travis, Eckels & Lesperance
As the story begins, there had just been a presidential election. Who had won the election?
Keith
What is the one important thing they are told they must do during the hunt?
Stay on the path
The story is called A Sound of Thunder. What caused the first sound of thunder?
The sound of the Tyrannosaurus Rex
When they finally find their animal, Eckels does something that makes the others angry at him and threaten to leave him behind in the past. What does he do?
He goes off the path
At the end of the story, when they return home, something is different and wrong. What has happened?
Deutscher has won the presidency
What is the setting of the Flying machine?
The emperor´s garden. The emperor´s palace.
What does the Emperor order to be done to the flying man?
The man was executed and his body burned.
Why does the Emperor fear the flying machine?
The enemy could use it to drop stones out of the air on the Great Wall.
What figures are shown in the Emperor’s wind up machine?
Birds, trees, wolves, forests, people, fountains and emerald birds.
Who are the characters in The flying machine story?
The emperor, the servant & the flier
What is the meaning of "bewildered"?
surprised and amazed
Mention one theme of the The flying machine
Fear of news things, Technological responsibility/innovation, fear of progress
What rhetorical device is this quote "the bird like keel of the apparatus."
simile
What is the first thing Eckels notices when he returns from the time safari?
The sign on the office door
The "sound of thunder" referred to in the last line of the story is actually the sound of
a rifle shot, a gun shot
