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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 3

Reading Check

1. What does Angela DuPre find on the plane that appears out of nowhere?

2. What does Jonah’s letter say?

3. What does Chip discover?

Short Answer

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

1. How does Jonah react to the letter?

2. How does Jonah help Chip as he uncovers a large truth about his identity?

Chapters 4-7

Reading Check

1. When Jonah and Chip call the number on the sticky note, where does the man who answers work?

2. What does Jonah’s second letter say?

Short Answer

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

1. What happens that proves the letters are not just a prank?

2. How is James Reardon connected to both Jonah and Chip?

Paired Resource

“Adoption TikTok: Building Community and Critiquing the U.S. Adoption System”

• Teen Vogue explores experiences with adoption and how some find community as they face this aspect of their identity.
• The article offers connections to the themes of Who Am I?, Trusting Oneself and Others, and Newfound Truths Versus Long-Standing Beliefs.
• How do Chip and Jonah feel differently about being adopted? How do their feelings connect to or differ from those in the article?

Chapters 8-10

Reading Check

1. What does the janitor give Jonah before the meeting at the FBI?

2. Who gets pictures of the information in the file at the FBI?

Short Answer

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

1. How does Reardon treat Jonah and his family?

2. What can the reader infer about Katherine helping Jonah?

Chapters 11-14

Reading Check

1. How does Katherine refer to the janitor who appeared at the FBI?

2. What list do Jonah’s and Chip’s names appear on?

Short Answer

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

1. Why does Jonah run away from Chip’s house when they and Katherine are investigating?

2. How does Jonah react when he learns what the people said to Katherine and Chip over the phone?

Chapters 15-18

Reading Check

1. Where does Angela DuPre want to meet Jonah, Katherine, and Chip?

2. Before meeting Angela DuPre, what does Jonah leave on his desk?

3. What does Angela believe about the plane she saw?

Short Answer

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

1. How does Daniella McCarthy react when Chip and Katherine talk with her?

2. To what extent does Jonah believe Angela?

Paired Resource

“Cognitive Biases and Brain Biology Help Explain Why Facts Don’t Change Minds”

• This article from The Conversation explores different cognitive biases and how they affect how we view the world.
• The article connects to the theme of Newfound Truths Versus Long-Standing Beliefs.
• How does Jonah hold onto his beliefs about the world despite evidence that suggests shifts in the truth?

Chapters 19-21

Reading Check

1. Who interrupts the meeting between Jonah, Chip, Katherine, and Angela at the library?

2. When Jonah sees Angela leave the parking lot, where does he think she went?

Short Answer

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

1. What does biking back to the library after the fight reveal about Jonah?

2. Why does Jonah decide nothing discussed on the phone is safe?

Chapters 22-24

Reading Check

1. When Jonah, Katherine, and Chip call information to get Angela’s number, what does the operator tell them?

2. What conference does Jonah’s family get a flyer for?

Short Answer

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

1. In what way does the basketball game between Katherine and Jonah contrast with the game between Jonah and Chip earlier in the novel?

2. How do Jonah and Katherine convince their mom to let Katherine attend the conference too?

Chapters 25-27

Reading Check

1. Whom does Katherine pretend to be at the conference?

2. What does Hodge tell each young person in the group to do when entering the cave?

3. After they all get in the cave, what happens?

Short Answer

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

1. What details at the conference build suspense?

2. How does Jonah demonstrate leadership at the conference?

Chapters 28-30

Reading Check

1. Where are JB, Hodge, and Gary from?

2. What does Jonah find outside after he opens the cave door?

3. What does JB call the children from the plane?

Short Answer

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

1. How does Angela reveal that Jonah can trust her?

2. Why is JB worried about “ripples”?

Paired Resource

“Trust”

• In this poem, Thomas R. Smith muses about acts of trust, both large and small.
• The poem connects to the theme of Trusting Oneself and Others.
• How do Jonah, Katherine, and Chip decide whom to trust during the commotion in the cave?

“Children”

• Khalil Gibran builds the assertion that while adults may guide, feed, and shelter young people, ultimately, each person gets to choose their path.
• The poem includes connections to the themes of Who Am I? and Newfound Truths Versus Long-Standing Beliefs.
• Consider how the adults in the novel support or resist this line from the poem: “And though they [children] are with you, yet they belong not to you.”

Chapters 31-33

Reading Check

1. Where does JB want to send the children?

2. Where do Hodge and Gary want to send the children?

3. Where do Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex end up at the end of the novel?

Short Answer

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

1. How do JB, Hodge, and Gary treat the children similarly?

2. How does the passage of time in the cave affect Jonah and the other children?

3. What can be inferred by Jonah refusing to leave Chip?

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• The novel includes connections to the themes of Who Am I?, Trusting Oneself and Others, and Newfound Truths Versus Long-Standing Beliefs.
• Shared topics include coming of age, family, friendship, magic, adventure, and danger.
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone on SuperSummary

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

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