Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key plot points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Round 1

Reading Check

1. Who narrates the introduction to Round 1?

2. Where is Cassius for Round 1?

3. What does Cassius promise to buy for his mother?

4. Where is Cassius from?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. How does Cassius describe himself in the first round of the novel?

2. How does Cassius feel after losing?

Round 2

Reading Check

1. What is Cassius’s mother’s name?

2. What is the age gap between Cassius and Rudy?

3. What is the name of the park with the “Whites Only” sign?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What might the fact that Cash has painted signs like “Colored Waiting Room” and “Whites Only” suggest about how he approaches his job?

2. Why do Cassius and Rudy go with Cash to their grandfather’s house?

3. What does it mean that there are “two Louisvilles”?

Round 3

Reading Check

1. Which superhero does Cassius enjoy reading about?

2. Whom was Rudy named after?

3. What card does Cassius pull during Granddaddy Herman’s card trick?

4. What sport did Granddaddy Herman play?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence.