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Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.
Reading Check
1. What is the story’s setting?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Why do people call this day “Rocket Summer”?
Reading Check
1. Who appears to Ylla in her dreams?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Why does Yll insist that Ylla stay home on the day of the rocket landing?
Reading Check
1. Which expedition is about to arrive in August of 1999?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. What kinds of behavior cause chaos on the night before the expedition arrives?
Reading Check
1. Who is the first Martian that Captain Williams encounters?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. How does dramatic irony heighten the reader’s response to the encounter between Mr. Xxx and Williams’s crew?
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The Illustrated Man
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The Other Foot
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The Toynbee Convector
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