English Midterm Review (A sound of Thunder) – Flashcards
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What company does Eckels visit?
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Time Safari, Inc.
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What are the penalties for disobeying instruction?
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penalty of 10,000 dollars and possible gov't action
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About what is Eckels thankful?
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Kieth won the election
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What did some people want to do if Deutscher had won the election and why?
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go back to 1492. He was a militaristic, chauvinist pig. In other word not a lot people liked him.
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What does the man behind the desk tell Eckels happened last year that makes Eckels think about going on the safari?
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6 safari leaders and a dozen hunters died last year
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Who is the safari leader?
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Travis
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How many people besides are on the trip? Name them.
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4 and they are lesperance, billings, travis, and kramer
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What does Travis tell Eckels is the best way to kill a dinosaur?
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"Put your first into the eyes...go back into the brain."
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When the hunters arrive at their destination happened in history yet?
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-Christ, Alexander, Ceaser, Nepolean, Hitler weren't born yet - Moses didn't go up the mountain to talk with god -Pyramids are still not build and in the earth
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How many years did the men travel?
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Sixty million, two thousand and fifty five years
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What is the antigravity metal path and why must the men stay on it ?
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It's supposed to prevent them from touch any part of the the past in any way. If they don't they drastically the present and the future.
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What happened to the machine and the men's clothes before the made their journey?
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Everything was sterilized
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Why do the men wear oxygen helmets?
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So their bacteria doesn't contaminate anything
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What is unique about the dinosaurs that the men can shoot?
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They would in the near future anyway.
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What does Travis mean when he says, "That would be a paradox?"
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It can't happen
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What does Eckels jokingly pretend to do?
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Aim his rifle
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How does the reader know Eckels is Afraid?
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He seems nervouse throughout the story. He swallows a lot. He evens says he's shaking like a kid.
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What does Eckels say when he sees the size of the dinsoaur?
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"It could reach up and grab the moon?"
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How doe the men know which dinosouars they shoot?
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They have red paint on them.
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Where was Eckels on his way to he stepped off the path?
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back to the machine to hide
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What do billings and kramer do after the dino is dead?
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throw up
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What does lesperance offer billings and kramer that they turn down?
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the throphy picture
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What does Travis tell Eckels they are going to do to him?
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Leave him in the past
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What does Travis make Eckels do in order to back with them?
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get the bullest out of the T-rex
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What does Eckels notice about the sign on theire return?
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The spelling has changed
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What does Eckels find on the bottom of his boot?
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dead butterfly
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What does Eckels learn of the election?
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Kieth lost
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What is the reader to infer that Travis does to Eckels?
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Travis shoot Eckels.
