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

Chapters 1-2

Reading Check

1. What grade is Bryce in when he meets Juli Baker?

2. Who brings Juli into the house to hunt down Bryce?

3. Who becomes Bryce’s girlfriend to aid him in avoiding Juli?

4. What does Juli do to Bryce when she sits by him in Mr. Mertins’s class?

5. Whom does Juli claim interrupted the moment Bryce might have kissed her?

6. What does Juli say Bryce’s hair smells like?

Short Answer

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

1. Why does Bryce look forward to seventh grade?

2. How do Juli’s and Bryce’s perspectives differ on what happens the first day they meet?

3. Why does Juli attack Shelly Stalls?

Paired Resource

“The Importance of Taking the Perspectives of Others”

• This article describes the importance of perspective during conflict resolution.
• What is an essential aspect of problem resolution? What is egocentrism? What can an understanding of others help someone to accomplish? How might someone attempt to take on someone else’s perspective? How is this article related to the novel’s theme of Change as a Result of New Perspective and Seeing Individuals for Who They Really Are?