Chapters 1-7 Quiz

1. Did you complete the reading assignment?

2. [Summarize Main Ideas and Details – summarization really requires using all 7 other skills
flexibly/as needed before summarizing] Write a 15-sentence maximum summary of the
chapters.

Remember that a summary should include multiple major events. Don’t just write about 1
event. Try to structure your summary around main ideas and details or themes and examples –
don’t just list the events. When you simply list events in the order they happen, you aren’t
really gaining any understanding of the main ideas of the story as a whole. Remember
summarizing is being used as a tool to help broaden and deepen understanding – how do the
events of the novel fit together to create themes? Why did the author choose to show us these
selected events from Amir’s life? Use transition words and vary your sentence structure.

Similar to my videos, highlight your main idea statements in yellow. Then, check your
evidence/details. Do they support your main idea for that paragraph?

CHOOSE 1 PROMPT FOR NUMBER 3 (COMPLETE 1 – A, B, or C, NOT ALL)

3a. [make connections, monitor and clarify meaning, make inferences, think aloud, self
question] At this point in the story, how do you feel about Amir? Baba? 2 other characters?
Write how you feel about them (opinion) and explain why you feel that way (use events
from the book as evidence – I don’t need actual quotes, simply stating the event in your own
words is fine for this question).

3b. [make connections, monitor and clarify meaning (you likely use other skills here too
depending on the quotes you choose)] Choose 2 quotes that “stuck out” to you for any reason.
Write the quote. Give me some context/background. Explain the quote. Explain why this
quote “stuck out” to you. (write 3-4 sentences about each quote)

3c. [make connections, self-question] Connections: text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world.

While you read, did you make connections from the text to you, to other texts you have read,
or to events in the world? Give me 2 examples from the text that you made a connection with.
Explain the connection.
CHOOSE 1 PROMPT FOR NUMBER 4 (COMPLETE 1 – A, B, or C, NOT ALL)

4a. [make inferences, monitor and clarify meaning, make connections, self question] What is
Baba afraid that Amir will grow up to become? Is this fair? Is it rational? How does it make you
feel about Baba? How do you feel about Rahim Khan and his response to Baba? (Don’t forget
to write about all topics)

4b. [visualize, make connections, make inferences, question the author, evaluate the author’s
purpose] During the terrible scene that ends chapter 7, the author draws parallels between
Hassan and the sacrificial lamb. Amir describes Hassan’s eyes as looking like that of a lamb
headed to be slaughtered in sacrifice. Why does the author draw this parallel? What is the
author trying to say? Amir is sacrificing Hassan… but for what? Why?

4c. [make predictions, monitor meaning, evaluate author’s purposes] At the very beginning of
the book, there is foreshadowing of a later conversation about redemption. We now know
some (but not all) of what Amir needs redemption for. Make a prediction. Will Amir find
redemption? What events/evidence in the text makes you believe this? How will he find it or
not find it? Does he deserve to find it?

5. [summarize, make connections, evaluate the author’s purposes] Explore 2 themes of the
novel. Some ideas are 1) betrayal, redemption, forgiveness; 2) the powerful against the
powerless; 3) father-son relationships; growing up/becoming a man; 4) the intersection of
political forces and private lives; 5) love; 6) the immigrant experience 7)evil vs good and how
we distinguish between them 8)judge by intentions or actions 9)gender roles and rights …. You
do not have to limit yourself to this list.

Write 7-10 sentences and at least 1 quote about each theme. No guidelines for what to write.
Just write about it. We will follow the themes/topics throughout the novel.
6. [monitor and clarify meaning] Choose 2 unknown words from these chapters and complete
the chart below (looks familiar from SSR I hope!)
Word, Source with Page #, Context Clue and Hypothesis Check the Dictionary and
and Context (Review p. 12-16 of the textbook. Is Reflect
(At minimum, provide the sentence the there a context clue available? If so, (What is the complete/full definition
word is found in – however, depending which type of context clue are you from a dictionary? I recommend
on the usage, the sentences before or using to help make an educated guess copy/paste!
after might be needed) at the definition of the word? Then,
what’s your guess? [you will not be Then, which definition for the word fits
graded on if your guess is correct – you best in this passage? Why? How do
will be graded on if your hypothesis is you know?
plausible based on the context])
Finally, was your hypothesis correct?
Close? Really far off? Reflect.

7. [metacognition] Choose 1 question from the test and explain how that question helps you
practice the active reading skills from the course.