All Summer in a Day
This author wrote “All Summer in a Day,” a story set on Venus where the sun appears only once every seven years
Who is Ray Bradbury
What game are the children playing when they first discover the man in the well?
Hide-and-seek.
This character narrates the story and struggles the most with her wolf upbringing and her new human experiences
Who is Claudette
This phenomenon can make “good people” more likely to harm individuals outside their group, according to Rebecca Saxe.
What is “mob mentality”
This author wrote “The Lottery,” a story about a small town’s shocking annual ritual
Who is Shirley Jackson
This girl is the main character who remembers the sun from Earth and desperately waits for it to appear on Venus
Who is Margot
The man in the well asks the children for two things: help and to tell him this information about themselves
Their names
This institution is meant to assimilate the wolf girls
What is St. Lucys home for girls raised by wolves
In the Saxe-led study, they measured activity in this part of the brain, known for being involved when a person thinks about themselves
What is the medial prefrontal cortex
This object, old and splintered, holds the slips of paper that determine the lottery’s outcome
What is the black box
This rare event lasts only two hours but means everything to the children living on Venus
What is the appearance of the sun
What does the man eventually reveal his own name is
Fred
This sister adapts far too quickly for Claudette's comfort, becoming a model student almost immediately
Who is Jeanette
According to the study, when people competed as a group rather than individually, some showed reduced activation in the medial prefrontal cortex while reading these
What are self-referential moral statements
This character becomes the “winner” of the lottery and protests that the ritual isn’t fair
Who is Tessie Hutchinson
This group of people cruelly locks Margot in a closet just before the sun comes out.
Who are her classmates
What food item do the children leave for the man as their final act before abandoning him
A sandwich (or peanut butter sandwich)
The nuns use this official-sounding list, borrowed from a guide to rehabilitating wild animals, to describe the girls’ stages of adaptation.
What are the “Five Stages of Lycanthropic Culture Shock”
Participants who showed reduced self-related brain activity were more likely to do this in a task following the group competition
What is “select unflattering photos of the competing team (i.e., harm their competitors)”
This everyday-sounding title hides the true purpose of the town’s ritual: a violent, deadly tradition.
What is the stoning of the chosen person
This realization, filled with guilt and regret, hits the children only after the sun disappears and they return to the school building
What is the realization that they locked Margot away and she missed the sun
The story is a first-person account told by the narrator looking back on the event from the future, filled with feelings of this emotion
Guilt (or shame, remorse)
This event, meant to show the girls’ progress, becomes a disaster for Claudette when she panics and forgets her steps
What is the dance recital?
What cognitive effect did individuals with reduced medial prefrontal activation show after the group task, regarding the moral statements they read
What is poorer memory for the moral statements
This theme is highlighted by the townspeople’s willingness to follow the ritual simply because it’s always been done.
What is the danger of blindly following tradition