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

PRLOGUE-CHAPTER 4

Reading Check

1. In what setting does the Prologue take place?

2. At the Home of Angels orphanage, the older boys bully Jennings by calling him what nickname?

3. Who is the lead bully at the orphanage?

Short Answer

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

1. Jennings characterizes the Home of the Angels as a place where the children wait. What are the children waiting for? What are Jennings initial impressions of the orphanage?

2. Why do the Carpenters reject Jennings as an adoptive son?

3. As Mark explains to Jennings, why is the first rule of the orphanage not to make friends?

Paired Resource

“Jennings Michael Burch”

• This obituary for Jennings Michael Burch, who died in 2013, appeared in The Putnam County Courier, a newspaper local to Burch’s home in upstate New York.
• Besides the writing of They Cage the Animals at Night, what other legacies did Jennings leave?

CHAPTERS 5-7

Reading Check

1. What war begins just as Jennings returns to Catholic school where his teacher is Sister Anne Charles?

2.