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. Where does Percy’s class go for their field trip?

A) The Guggenheim

B) The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C) The Statue of Liberty

D) The Washington Monument

2. Which teacher does Percy think is cool?

A) Mrs. Dodds

B) Mrs. Kerr

C) Mr. Brunner

D) Mr. Yancy

3. What does Mr. Brunner give Percy to fight off Mrs. Dodds?

A) a pen that turns into a sword

B) a pencil that becomes a spear

C) a pen that is really a shield

D) an eraser that becomes a bow

4. Why does Percy go to Mr. Brunner’s office?

A) He is struggling in Latin because of his dyslexia.

B) He wants to know why only he remembers Mrs. Dodds.

C) He suspects that Mr. Brunner is hiding something from him.

D) He wants to appeal his expulsion.

5. What deadline does Percy overhear Grover mention to Mr.