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. When the memoir opens, what does Jeanette see when she looks out the window of the taxi? 

A) a bright star in the night sky

B) her father asleep on a park bench

C) her mother rummaging through a dumpster

D) a dingy apartment she lived in years ago

2. Why doesn’t Jeanette help her mother financially?

A) She knows her mother would only spend the money on alcohol.

B) She is resentful toward her mother and does not want to help.

C) She believes the only way her mother will change is through tough love.

D) She tries to help her mother and the offer of help is rejected.

3. What does Dad call “doing the skedaddle”?