The Glass Castle Test
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The Glass Castle Test
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9th - 12th Grade
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Emily Seiser
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This quiz comprehensively assesses students' knowledge of Jeannette Walls' memoir "The Glass Castle," making it appropriate for grades 9-12 English Language Arts classes. The questions span multiple dimensions of literary analysis, requiring students to demonstrate recall of plot details, character relationships, and setting changes throughout the narrative. Students need a solid understanding of literary devices including metaphor, personification, foreshadowing, and point of view, as well as structural elements like exposition and flashback. The quiz also tests comprehension of character development, particularly the complex dynamics within the Walls family and Jeannette's journey from childhood trauma to professional success. To succeed on this assessment, students must synthesize information across the entire memoir, analyze the author's craft in creating meaning through literary techniques, and distinguish between different types of figurative language and narrative perspectives. Created by Emily Seiser, an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 9-12. This comprehensive assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a summative test following completion of the novel, a review tool before major discussions or essays, or as homework to reinforce key concepts and details from the memoir. The quiz supports classroom instruction by encouraging close reading skills and requiring students to engage with both surface-level plot elements and deeper literary analysis. Teachers can use this assessment for formative evaluation to identify areas where students need additional support in literary device recognition or reading comprehension before moving to more complex analytical writing tasks. The questions align with Common Core standards RL.9-10.3 and RL.11-12.3 for analyzing character development, RL.9-10.4 and RL.11-12.4 for interpreting figurative language and literary devices, and RL.9-10.5 and RL.11-12.5 for analyzing text structure and narrative techniques.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
Which is not a place the Walls' lived?
Welch
Phoenix
New York City
Battle Mountain
San Diego
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
CCSS.W.9-10.9
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
How do you spell the narrator's name?
Jeanete
Jeannette
Jeannete
Jeannete
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
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
What did the Walls kids call their "escape fund?"
The Emerald City
Miss Piggy
Oz
Elvis
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
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Which one of the following characters is not considered an antagonist throughout the novel?
Mental Illness
Poverty
The stairs
Rex Walls
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
Which of the following quotes represents an example of foreshadowing?
“I’ll never get out of here,” Lori kept saying. “I’ll never get out of here.” “You will,” I said. “I swear it.” I believed she would. Because I knew that if Lori never got out of Welch, neither would I.”
“....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.”
“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”
“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.5
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What career did Jeannette pursue in New York City?
writer
journalist
photographer
artist, like her mother
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
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Who did Jeannette live with in NYC while in college?
a photographer
a psychologist
her parents
by herself
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.10
CCSS.RI.6.10
CCSS.RI.7.10
CCSS.RI.8.10
CCSS.RI.9-10.10
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