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 inspired Alex to record his experiences and send his Golden iPod to space?

A) his brother Ronnie’s senior physics project

B) Lander Civet’s first planned rocket launch

C) Carl Sagan’s experiment with Voyager 1 and 2

D) his father’s achievement as a civil engineer

2. Who helps Alex board the train for SHARF?

A) a stranger

B) Zed and Steve

C) his mother

D) Justin Mendoza

3. Based on details Alex relays by the time he meets Zed, which of these statements can be inferred?

A) Alex’s mother is seeking treatment for depression.

B) Ronnie travels home to check on Alex every few months.

C) Alex looks to Mr. Bashir and Mr.