The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Authored by Diana Lyddane
English
8th - 12th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on reading comprehension and textual analysis of James Dashner's dystopian young adult novel "The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials," the second book in The Maze Runner series. Designed for middle to high school students in grades 8-12, the assessment evaluates students' ability to recall specific plot details, character relationships, and narrative events from their independent or guided reading. Students need strong literal comprehension skills to identify character names, actions, and dialogue, as well as inferential reading abilities to understand character motivations and the complex relationships between protagonists like Thomas, Teresa, Minho, and new characters including Aris, Brenda, and Jorge. The questions require students to track multiple storylines, understand the dystopian world-building elements such as WICKED, the Flare virus, and the Cranks, and demonstrate their grasp of how character decisions drive the plot forward through the dangerous Scorch trials. Created by Diana Lyddane, an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 8-12. This comprehensive quiz serves multiple instructional purposes in the English language arts classroom, functioning effectively as a summative assessment after students complete the novel, a review tool before class discussions, or homework to reinforce reading accountability. Teachers can use this assessment to gauge student engagement with assigned reading, identify students who may need additional support with comprehension strategies, or as a foundation for deeper literary analysis discussions about themes, character development, and dystopian literature conventions. The quiz aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.1 and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1, which require students to cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.3 and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3, focusing on character analysis and plot development in complex literary texts.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What was Teresa's last name?
Thompson
Agnes
George
Smith
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What did Thomas' neck tattoo read?
To be killed
The leader
The runner
The follower
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What did they call the man in white?
The man in white
The rat man
Shank
Greenie
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.1.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Who is Aris?
A member of WICKED
Thomas' roomate
A boy from another maze
A greenie
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What was different about the maze that Aris came from?
He was the only boy
He was the only one
He was a runner too
He wasn't in another maze
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.W.8.9A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What happened the the girl in Aris' maze that was like Thomas?
She was killed
WICKED took her
She was with Aris and the Gladers
She was part of WICKED
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.W.8.9A
CCSS.RL.8.2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Who was in the bathroom of Teresa's bunk?
Teresa
Aris
George
Brenda
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.1
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