This flexible-use quiz is designed for reading comprehension assessment and activity needs in classroom, home-schooling and other settings. Questions connect to the text’s plot, characters, and themes — and align with the content and chapter organization in the rest of this study guide. Use quizzes as pre-reading hooks, reading checks, discussion starters, entrance/exit “tickets,” small group activities, writing activities, and lessons on finding evidence and support in a text.

Depth of Knowledge Levels: Questions require respondents to demonstrate ability to: 

1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

1. What color are the peonies Grace hallucinates in the prison yard?

A) yellow

B) white

C) pink

D) red

2. How did Grace know Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery? (short answer)

3. According to the poem about the murders of Nancy Montgomery and Thomas Kinnear, why did McDermott kill Kinnear?

A) because Grace was in love with Kinnear

B) because Kinnear suspected him of killing Nancy

C) because Kinnear was planning to dismiss him

D) because Grace asked him to

4. Which of the following ideas best explains the significance of the scrapbooks that Grace views in the Governor’s house?

A) They engage in deliberate falsehood.

B) They document the effects of gender norms on women.

C) They imply that memory is a construction.