Q 01/05

In 'All Summer in a Day', where do Margot's classmates shut her away just before the sun comes out?

A) A cellar

B) A washroom

C) A closet

D) A supply shed

Answer · why

C) A closet

A closet is where Margot spends the whole of the sunshine, forgotten by the class. She misses the one thing she had waited five years to see again.

Q 02/05

How often does the sun come out on the rain-soaked Venus of Ray Bradbury's 'All Summer in a Day'?

A) Every seven years

B) Every twenty years

C) Every fifty years

D) Every hundred years

Answer · why

A) Every seven years

Every seven years the rain stops over Bradbury's Venus, and then only briefly. The 1982 television version stretched the wait to nine.

Q 03/05

NASA honored 'All Summer in a Day' author Ray Bradbury by naming a rover's landing site on which planet?

A) Venus

B) Mars

C) Mercury

D) Jupiter

Answer · why

B) Mars

Mars is home to Bradbury Landing, the spot where Curiosity touched down in 2012. NASA announced the name on what would have been the writer's 92nd bir...

Q 04/05

Which novel, typed on a rented library typewriter, did Ray Bradbury publish the year before 'All Summer in a Day'?

A) Dandelion Wine

B) The Halloween Tree

C) Death Is a Lonely Business

D) Fahrenheit 451

Answer · why

D) Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 cost Bradbury $9.80 to write, at ten cents per half-hour on a rented typewriter in UCLA's Powell Library. Its firemen burn books instea...

Q 05/05

What kind of landscape does the sunlight reveal outside the school in Ray Bradbury's 'All Summer in a Day'?

A) A desert

B) A glacier

C) A jungle

D) A lava field

Answer · why

C) A jungle

A jungle smothers Bradbury's Venus, growing and collapsing again under the endless storms. Pulp writers of his day often pictured the cloud-wrapped pl...