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. How has Anders’s profession slowly poisoned his life?

A) He cannot distinguish fantasy from reality.

B) He responds to everything critically rather than simply appreciating or enjoying things.

C) He drives people away by comparing them to fictional characters.

D) He prefers books to real people and things.

2. How does Anders respond when the woman in front of him at the bank complains about the teller closing her position?

A) He redirects his own hatred of the teller at the woman.

B) He ignores her completely and looks at the ceiling.

C) He realizes that his feelings of anger toward the teller were exaggerated.

D) He does not have a chance to respond because he sees the robbers enter the bank.