"The Glass Castle" pages 80-100 Pop-Quiz
Authored by NIGEL SCOTT
English
8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
As the Walls family made their way east, how is the setting described in the Appalachian Mountains?
The leaves had turned brown and a cold mist shrouded the hillsides.
It was very flat and desolate, very much like the southwest.
The trees were very tall and sparse, and oil rigs bobbed like giant birds.
Spanish moss was hanging from tree branches and there were craggy mountains.
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Upon arrival in Welch, who would not stop hugging and kissing Jeannette?
Ted Walls (Jeannette’s grandfather)
Ernie Goad (a kid in town)
Erma Walls (Jeannette’s grandmother)
Stanley Walls (Jeannette’s uncle)
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What does Erma pull from her dress pocket that made Rex “look happy for the first time since…Phoenix?”
a bottle of whiskey
Rex’s original high school diploma
the original sketches for the Glass Castle
a pack of cigarettes and a lighter
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.2
CCSS.RI.8.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What does Erma ask that the Walls kids NOT do in her house because “it gets on her nerves?”
Read; she thinks they are too smart for their own good.
Wear shoes; she likes to keep her house immaculate.
Laugh; it makes too much noise.
Watch television; she has her special shows she watches and doesn’t want to fight for the remote.
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CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
CCSS.RL.1.1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
The Tug River in Welch is famous for what?
It was one of the most narrow rivers in all of North America.
It had the highest level of fecal bacteria of any river in North America.
It was one of the earliest rivers robber-barons used to travel when settling North America.
It had been a river on which many famous Americans had traveled.
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CCSS.RI.7.2
CCSS.RI.8.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Rose Mary enrolls Brain and Jeannette at Welch Elementary. What question does the principal ask the kids?
“How miny plenets are thee?”
“Wuts tha naym of yer diddy?”
“Wuts et tam sebm?”
“Wuts tha capitel uf wist vergeenya?”
Tags
CCSS.RF.3.3B
CCSS.RF.3.3C
CCSS.RF.3.3D
CCSS.RF.4.3A
CCSS.RF.5.3A
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
In her fifth grade class, Jeannette turns around to see the “tall black girl with the almond eyes” doing what?
holding up a paper clip she used to stab Jeannette in the head
holding up a pair of scissors and a swatch of Jeannette’s ponytail
holding up a sharp pencil she’d jabbed into Jeannette’s back
holding up her middle finger telling Jeannette to back off
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
CCSS.RI.7.1
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.7.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
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