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

Chapter 1-4

Reading Check

1. What is the name of the boy Lucia has a crush on?

Short Answer

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

1. In Chapter 2, what does Lucia think her mother wants to talk to her about at breakfast?

2. In Chapter 3, why do Lucia and Frankie decide not to tell their parents about what they saw at the school?

Chapters 5-8

Reading Check

1. Why does her mother send Lucia to the pharmacy in Chapter 6?

Short Answer

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

1. When Lucia hides at the top of the stairs to listen to her parents talk in Chapter 5, what does she see her father do?

2. In Chapter 8, what does Ivette pressure Lucia to do that causes Lucia to end up revealing a family secret?

Paired Resource

“A family torn apart by war, 1777”

• This resource from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History offers a primary document written by a young woman during the American Revolution and asks thought-provoking questions about how political divisions impact families.