"Hush" Quiz Chapters 1-14

What is the one thing that cannot be taken from you, according to the narrator?

• your real name

• your family

• your hobbies

• your soul

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Why do the boys call the narrator Neckbone?

• She is often slumping.

• She is tall and skinny.

• She swallows a lot.

• She walks like a chicken.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What happens just before the family leaves Denver, which ends up changing Mama’s thinking?

• Grandma says that it is all just a game.

• They get photos of the new place.

• Jehovah’s Witnesses give her readings.

• The police show up with an escort.

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What role does Officer Randall’s son Joseph play in Denver?

• a traitor toward the family

• a kind of spy or snoop

• a joker who mocks the family

• the one who asks them to leave

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is true about Jonathan Green’s treatment as a police officer?

• His daughters were ashamed.

• Neighbors were scared of him.

• He was honored and then hated.

• His wife did not think much 

  about it.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is Anna’s plan for making the most of their bad situation?

• Her plan is to study a skill to get a job.

• Her plan is to study family history in secret.

• Her plan is to think just of the far, far future.

• Her plan is to think about the past with fondness.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Evie says the buildings in the new town “go on like mountains.” This is an example of which literary device?

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Why is Toswiah's original name special to her?

• There is another girl in her class who shares her name.

• It comes from a jump rope rhyme.

• It was her grandmother's name.

• She hates her name.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Who is Toswiah's best friend?

• her mother

• her grandmother

• Cameron

• LuLu

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following images makes Toswiah/Evie think of home?

• mountains

• rivers

• a pair of shoes

• an oatmeal bowl

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6