English

A Sound of Thunder
I. Multiple Choice (60 pts.)

1. Who’s the author of A Sound of Thunder?
a. Ray Bradbury
b. Julia Alvarez
c. O. Henry
d. Richard Wright

2. What is the name of the main character?
a. Travis
b. Eckels
c. Frankly
d. Lesperance

3. Some dinosaurs have two brains, where are they located?
a. In the head and in the eyes
b.In the tail and in the head
c. In the head and in the spinal column
d. In the spinal column and in the eyes

4. In what year does Eckels was before traveling to the past?
a. 2060
b. 2012
c. 2053
d. 2055

5. What does Eckels find on his boot at the end of the story?
a. A dead cockroach
b. A dead worm
c. A dead butterfly
d. A dead gold and blackbutterfly

6. What was the penalty by disobeying the instructions?
a. Pay another ten thousand dollars plus a government action
b. Dead
c. Pay another fifteen thousand dollars and death sentence
d. Don’t travel to the past

7. Who won the election before Eckels change the future?
a. Keith
b. Travis
c. Deutscher
d. Lesperance

8. How many Safarileaders and hunters were killed?
a. Five Safari leaders and a hundred of hunters
b. Thousands of Safari leaders and hunters
c. Six Safari leaders and a dozen of hunters
d. All above

9. At the end of the story who killed Eckels?
a. Travis
b. Lesperence
c. The government
d. Deutscher

10. What was the important discovery that Eckels made at the end of the storythat horrified him?
a. The T-Rex
b. The dead butterfly
c. The footprint
d. All above

Daughter of Invention
1. Who’s the author of Daughter of Invention?
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b. Julia Alvarez
c. Richard Wright
d. James Hurst

2. What was the nickname of the main character?
a. Cukita
b. Montressor
c. Chapita
d. She has no nickname

3.What was the nickname of the dictator?
a. Pedro Manach
b. Makarov
c. Cukita
d. Chapita

4. Who was the dictator of Dominican Republic?
a. Mary Joseph
b. Cukito
c. Trujillo
d. Richard Wright

5. At the end of the story what does Cukita’s father gave her?
a. A new electric typewriter
b. A new book
c. A heavy cardboard box
d. All of them6. Cukita’s father was chasing her daughter, why?
a. She insulted him
b. She said to him that he was like Trujillo
c. Because her father is insane
d. Because she hit her mother

7. Why does the narrator first have trouble writing s speech for teacher’s day?
a. Because she hate teachers
b. Because she didn’t have enough inspiration
c. She doesn’t wanted to be infront of the school because of her bad accent and because not having inspiration
d. The teacher made her to do it

8. Why does the narrator’s father dislike her speech?
a. Because the reason for that speech was to thank teachers
b. Because it seems she was ungrateful
c. Because he just hate it
d. All above

9. What ideas does the narrator use from Walt Whitman’s poetry?a. None of them
b. She thought that his poetry was inspiring and a better way to express herself
c. Walt Whitman was her idol
d. She just like to plagiarize his ideas

10. How is the mother’s speech different from the narrator?
a. Cukita’s mother didn’t wrote a speech
b. Both were the same
c. The mother’s speech seems to support her daughter’s ideas
d. Themother’s speech seems to support teachers, but Cukita’s speech sounds egocentric and ungrateful
The Cask of Amontillado
1. Who’s the main character?
a. Fortunato
b. Edgar
c. Montressor
d. They didn’t mention it

2. What was Fortunato’s best skill?
a. Wine...