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. Who gives Welles a red bandanna?

A) his father, Jeff

B) his lacrosse coach

C) his first girlfriend

D) his mother, Alison

2. When does Welles carry his bandanna?

A) while at the fire department

B) everywhere he goes

C) while at school sporting events

D) on school test days

3. Why do bullies pick on Welles?

A) He won’t wear plaid shirts.

B) He’s short for his age.

C) He has a potty mouth.

D) He has a birth-defect limp.

4. On his first alarm as a volunteer firefighter, what blazing building does he help extinguish? (short answer)

5. Welles is trying to get a date with a beautiful girl in high school when his fire alarm goes off. What does Welles do?

A) He takes her with him to the fire station.