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 middle sister doing the first time she encounters milkman? (short answer)

2. Why does being photographed with milkman alarm middle sister so much?

A) She is afraid maybe-boyfriend will see the photo and break up with her.

B) She is afraid her family will find out about milkman and insist she stay at home.

C) She is afraid of being associated with a known “renouncer.”

D) She is afraid of being perceived as promiscuous.

3. Which of the following best explains why middle sister habitually reads while walking?

A) to avoid learning anything that might be dangerous to know

B) to drown out the violence of her surroundings