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. What does Rob discover behind the old gas station? (short answer)

2. How does Rob keep from thinking about sad things?

A) He counts to fifty.

B) He shuts his thoughts in an imaginary suitcase.

C) He talks to his friends Norton and Billy.

D) He paints pictures.

3. Rob says he is the “best not-crier in the world” (6). Why doesn’t Rob cry?

A) Rob is afraid that he will look weak.

B) Rob worries his friends will think he is sick.

C) Rob keeps his emotions tightly controlled since his mother’s death.

D) Rob does not cry because he is happy.

4. How does Rob deal with the Threemonger brothers bullying him?

A) He sits and takes it.