1.What is the setting (time and place)

2.Describe the unusual behavior of the bird

3.Approximately what year is it?

4.Nat hocker’s kids are named what?

5.How many birds end up dead in the children’s bedroom?

6.What are the unusual about the birds behaviors?

7.What explanation do people have for the birds behavior?

8.What steps does Nat take to protect he and his family from the birds?

9.What does Nat find when he got to the neighbors house

10.What are some themes in this short story?

11.Who is the conflict between?

12.Why didn’t the birds attack Nats family on their walk home from their neighbors?

13.What advice did the radio broadcaster advise the people of?

14.What was sent out to in the sky to make a way to kill the birds?

15.What happened to the planes?

16.Nat has an idea of how to kill the birds?

17.What did Nat use to put a buffer between the birds and the windows of his house?