Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Reading Check

1. Where does Connie know Arnold Friend from?

2. What is playing on Ellie’s radio?

3. What is Arnold’s car like?

4. What does Arnold want Connie to do?

5. What promise does Arnold make to Connie?

6. What choice does Connie make at the end of the story?

Multiple Choice

1. Why is Connie dismissive of her mother’s opinion?

A) because her mother is religious

B) because her mother’s beauty has faded

C) because she thinks her mother settled for an unhappy life

D) because her mother drinks too much

2. What does running across the highway to the drive-in represent?

A) breaking the rules that Connie’s parents explicitly laid down

B) disrespecting the social order of the suburbs

C) moving into the adult world before the girls are prepared

D) being ignorant of what young women are supposed to do

3. Why does Connie say the movie she saw is “so-so” when June asks?

A) She doesn’t want June to go with her next time.

B) She didn’t go to see the movie.

C) She spent the whole movie kissing her date.

D) She fell asleep during the movie.

4. Why does the phrase “Man the flying saucers” seem strange to Connie?