"A Sound of Thunder" Quiz and Discussion Activity

This includes a reading quiz on Bradbury's story "A Sound of Thunder" and a discussion activity for use by individual students, small groups, or the whole class. The questions focus on the concepts Bradbury's extensive use of metaphor in the story, diction, story construction, conflicts, theme, and the concept of "the butterfly effect." Included are also a short reading about "the butterfly effect" and the coining of the term, as well as a teacher answer sheet.



"A Sound of Thunder" Quiz and Discussion Activity by Marsha Metnzer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.