Reading Check and Short Answer Questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

PROLOGUE-CHAPTER 4

Reading Check

1. Where does Diogenes claim to have found Cloud Cuckoo Land?

2. What are Anna’s nicknames?

3. How do the villagers view Omeir because he is born with a cleft palate?

4. What is Konstance’s father metaphorically referring to when he describes how seeds work?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What does the Chorus of the children’s play say about the book Diogenes finds?

2. What shape do Omeir’s grandfather’s stories always take?

3. What challenges does Zeno face growing up?

4. Why do people avoid Seymour, and why does his mother often leave him alone?

CHAPTERS 5-9

Reading Check

1. What inescapable “evil” might Aethon’s transformation into a donkey represent?

2. Where does Widow Theodora tell the girls to turn to combat their fears of invasion?

3. What does Seymore see in the Eden’s Gate Realty housing development?

4. What kind of song does Rex believe the Greeks must have relied on most?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. How do the other teamsters describe Constantinople to Omeir, and what do their descriptions reveal?

2.