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Short Story Unit Quiz – Study Guide

|PLOT |Soto: Seventh Grade |Bradbury: A Sound of Thunder |Vonnegut: Harrison Bergeron |Dahl: Lamb to the Slaughter |Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart |

| |First day of seventh grade; Fresno, CA; |2055 A.D.; Eckels, Travis, and |2081 A.D.; handicaps are used to make |Mary Maloney happily prepares for her |The narrator tells us he’s not insane,|

|Exposition |Victor is friends with Michael and likes |Lesperance are travelling back in time |everyone in America “equal”; George and |husband, Patrick, to come home; she is |but his words and actions suggest |

| |Teresa. |to hunt a T-Rex. |Hazel Bergeron watch ballet on TV |blindsided when he tells her he is |otherwise. |

| | | | |leaving her. | |

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| |Victor wants to impress Teresa. |Travis emphasizes how careful they must |Harrison versus society |Mary kills her husband and, for the sake|Narrator versus himself |

|Conflict | |be, but Eckels is arrogant and careless.| |of her unborn baby, decides to cover up | |

| | | | |her crime. | |

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| |He signs up for French; he tries to talk to|Travis explains why they must be so |Harrison breaks into the TV studio, |She puts the leg of lamb in the oven; |Kills the old man he works for because|

|Rising Action |her after homeroom; he looks for her at |careful; the T-Rex begins to approach; |declares himself Emperor, removes all of|rehearses in front of a mirror; buys |of his “vulture eye”; hides the body |

| |lunch; he pretends to know French. |Eckels becomes extremely scared. |his handicaps, and dances with a |groceries; calls the police; plays the |under the floorboards; encourages the |

| | | |ballerina. |role of a grieving wife. |police to stay longer. |

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| |Teresa tells Victor she is impressed with |Eckels steps off of the path. |Diana Moon Glampers shoots and kills |She asks Jack Noonan and the other |The narrator thinks he hears the |

| |his French. | |Harrison and the ballerina. |officers to eat the lamb. |beating of the old man’s heart. |

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| |Teresa asks Victor to tutor her in French; |Travis threatens to leave Eckels behind;|The TV burns out in the Bergeron |They eat the lamb, thus destroying the |The sound increases and the narrator |

| |Mr. Bueller lets Victor have his moment. |they return to the present and find out |household; Hazel can’t remember what she|murder weapon. |begins to panic. |

|Falling Action | |that America is now run by a dictator. |just saw. | | |

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| |Victor borrows French textbooks from the |After finding a dead butterfly on the |George, who was in the kitchen, tells |Mary laughs, suggesting she will get |The narrator confesses that the old |

|Resolution |library and thinks he’s going to like |bottom of Eckels’s boot, Travis shoots |her to forget sad things…society wins. |away with the crime. |man’s body is beneath them. |

| |seventh grade. |Eckels. | | | |

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THEME: Review your definition of theme and then read over the examples below…

• Think before you act. Careful decision making is a key part of life.

• Believing in someone can make all the difference.

• Arrogance can lead to poor decisions.

• One cannot escape one’s own conscience.

Write down at least ONE major theme from each short story.

Gary Soto

Seventh Grade – Persistence pays off. People will do foolish things for love.

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Ray Bradbury

A Sound of Thunder – Think before you act. Even small actions can have major consequences.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Harrison Bergeron – Individual differences should be celebrated, not punished.

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Roald Dahl

Lamb to the Slaughter – Appearances can be deceiving. You never know what people are capable of.

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Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell-Tale Heart – One cannot escape one’s own conscience.

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