This flexible-use quiz is designed for reading comprehension assessment and activity needs in classroom, home-schooling and other settings. Questions connect to the text’s plot, characters, and themes — and align with the content and chapter organization in the rest of this study guide. Use quizzes as pre-reading hooks, reading checks, discussion starters, entrance/exit “tickets,” small group activities, writing activities, and lessons on finding evidence and support in a text.

Depth of Knowledge Levels: Questions require respondents to demonstrate ability to: 

1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

1. What is August’s profession? 

A) anthropologist

B) psychologist

C) jazz singer

D) social worker

2. What does Sylvia ask August? 

A) where she is from

B) whether she has a mother

C) what happened to her brother

D) where she got her clothes

3. What happened to Clyde? 

A) He stole money from August’s father.

B) He was drafted and killed.

C) He attacked August’s mother.

D) He decided to start his own farm.

4. Who is the center of August’s group of friends? 

A) August

B) Angela

C) Sylvia

D) Gigi