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. In what year does the book take place?

A) 1977

B) 1979

C) 1953

D) 1964

2. Who else in the Lee family has gone missing besides Lydia?

A) James

B) Nath

C) Hannah

D) Marilyn

3. What is the biggest reason Nath doesn’t want to tell his parents that Lydia has been hanging out with Jack Wolff?

A) He doesn’t like Jack.

B) He has been keeping their friendship a secret.

C) He is jealous of Lydia’s friendship with Jack.

D) He wants to talk to Jack himself.

4. How did Marilyn’s high school principal respond to her request to take shop instead of home economics?

A) He let her take the class.

B) He said that she couldn’t because it wouldn’t fit in her schedule.

C) He said that she could take any other class instead.

D) He said that having a girl in the class would be distracting for the boys.