Please refer to the article “the sound of thunder” to answer these questions.




1.What are the penalties for disobeying the time travel instructions?




2.Explain the difference between the presidential candidates. Who is Deutscher? Who is Keith?




3.Who travels back in time? What are each of their roles?




4.Once the characters travel back in time, what does Travis explain about the consequences of time travel?




5.Explain the significance of the anti-gravity path.




6.How do the men know which dinosaur to shoot? Why must they shoot that particular dinosaur?




7.How does the reader know Eckels is afraid?




8.Why is Travis angry with Eckels? How does he punish Eckels?




9.What does Eckels notice when they return to the present? Include some text references.




10.Who won the election? What does this signify?




11.What does the last line signify? What does the “sound of thunder” imply?