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

Part 1, Chapters 1-7

1. Why has Tally not seen Peris recently?

2. Whom does Tally find waiting by the river?

3. What does Shay teach Tally?

4. Where do Shay and Tally travel starting in Chapter 7?

Short-Answer

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

1. What is Shay’s biggest complaint about the pretty surgery?

Paired Resource

“The Automation Paradox”

• This video describes the history of automation in transportation, as well as the Automation Paradox—the idea that the more automation occurs, the more humans rely on automation and thus must develop it more.
• What kind of technologies have grown important in our lives? How does Tally’s futuristic world showcase technologies like automation? Does automation have any downsides when it comes to human development?

Part 1, Chapters 8-13

1. Whom does Shay want Tally to meet at the Rusty Ruins?

2. Where does Shay go a week before her surgery?

3. Who does Tally meet the day of her surgery?

Short-Answer

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

1. What do Tally and Shay argue about after they pull their prank on the new uglies?

2.