Characters
Plot
Theme
Vocab
Literary Device
100
What are the names of the two main characters?
Who are Eckels and Travis?
100
What did Eckels step on during the time travel?
What is Butterfly?
100
What is the significance of the butterfly?
How are small, insignificant changes like killing a butterfly connected to much bigger impacts?
100
Define “cavernous"
What is "giving the impression of vast, dark depths”?
100
What literary device is used to intensify the mood in this quote: ""Can't we," he pleaded to the world, to himself, to the officials, to the Machine, "can't we  take it back, can't we make it alive again? Can't we start over? Can't we­"" 
What is dialogue?
200
Which president did Eckels vote for?
Who is Keith?
200
What year does the story begin and end in?
When is 2055?
200
What does the time traveling device show about society today?
How does the device show misuse and exploitation of modern technology in a materialistic world where people can travel to any time period of earth with a mere ten thousand dollars?
200
Define "annihilate”
What is "destroy completely"?
200
What literary device is used in this description of the T-rex: "Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers."
What is metaphor and simile?
300
What are some of the major characteristics of Eckels? Use examples from the story.
How is Eckels foolish, irresponsible, childish, careless, and dumb? What does him not listening to Travis' warnings tell about his character? What does him suddenly backing out from shooting the T-rex at the last moment show? What does he not being concerned about stepping off the path show?
300
How many people, including Eckels, were on the Time Machine?
How many is five people?
300
How does the story relate to the Butterfly Effect?
How does the definition of Butterfly Effect, the phenomenon whereby a minute localized change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, prevail in the story? What does Eckels stepping on the Butterfly symbolize?
300
Define "resilient"
What is "able to recoil or spring back into shape after bending, stretching, or being compressed"?
300
List two examples of literary devices used in this quote: "Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap; rosessweeten the air, white hair turn Irishblack, wrinkles vanish; all, everything fly back to seed, flee death, rush down to their beginnings, suns rise in western skies and set in glorious easts, moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes, rabbits into hats, all and everything returning to the fresh death, the seed death, the green death, to the time before the beginning."
What is simile, metaphor, personification, and imagery?
400
What does Travis' pulling of the trigger reveal about his character?
How is Travis decisive, strict, unforgiving, logical, and responsible?
400
What things have changed since the men travelled into the past? 
Who is the new president? How did the people's opinion of the president change? What changed in the English language?
400
Who is killed at the end of the story, Eckels or Travis? What other possibilities to the ending are there? What difference in message of the story does this make?
How can it be either Eckels or Travis? How does killing Eckels show the responsibilities one has to face from making such "unimportant" mistakes that eventually led to irreversible changes? How does Travis killing himself show the guilt and mixed emotions he faces, who cannot bear to keep on living in a forever altered world?
400
Define "finicky"
What is "fussy about one's needs or requirements"?
400
List two examples of foreshadowing in the story.
What does Eckels say about the election before the time travel? How does Travis threaten to kill Eckels? Why does Travis keep warning "stay on the path"? Why does Travis mention the example of stepping on a mouse?
500
What incidents highlight the contrast between Travis and Eckels?
Why does Eckels not understand the importance of staying on path, and how does Travis explain this to him? Why does Travis make Eckels remove the bullets from the T-rex and why does Eckels think Travis is being unreasonable? Why is Travis mad when he sees Eckels step off the path while Eckels isn't concerned much? What does Travis pulling the trigger at the end show?
500
How much is the penalty fee for disobeying the instructions?
How much is ten thousand dollars?
500
What does this quote tell about the risks and dangers of time travel: "Eckels moaned. He dropped to his knees. He scrabbled at the golden butterfly with shaking fingers. "Can't we," he pleaded to the world, to himself, to the officials, to the Machine, "can't we take it back, can't we make it alive again? Can't we start over? Can't we­"".
How does small, "unimportant" mistakes and changes made in the past affect the future? How can it alter the future in ways people cannot predict or control? Can people "undo" the changes made in the past after the time travel?
500
Define "undulate"
What is "to move with a smooth wavelike motion"?
500
What does the metaphor "a sound of thunder" refer to? It appears twice.
What is the sound of the T-rex and Travis’ gunshot?
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