Reading Quizzes for ALL CHAPTERS of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN (Google Docs)

This is a complete set of reading quizzes for all 24 chapters of Frankenstein.

• Teachers all know that few kids read assigned material unless they’re given reading quizzes.  I want them to read, so I regularly use reading quizzes to make sure the reading happens. 
• I always try to make my reading quizzes "Sparknotes-proof," so just reading summaries wouldn't be enough to pass these quizzes.
• These quizzes are divided into three reading sections: Letters - Ch. 8, Ch. 9-16, and Ch. 17-24.
• There are 8-10 questions in each of FIVE quiz versions for each set of chapters. 
• There are a total of 150 questions. About 20% of questions necessarily repeat to create the five quiz versions, still allowing for huge bank of questions to choose from.
• A key to all the quizzes can be found in the document.
• The document is a Google Document that can be downloaded in DOC.X, PDF, TXT and RTF formats for easy editing.
• I always try to make my reading quizzes "Sparknotes-proof," so just reading summaries wouldn't be enough to pass these quizzes.
• OK, but why so many quiz versions?  Ever give a reading quiz 1st period that students who didn't read don’t do well on, but by the time you give the same quiz to your 4th period class, everyone is miraculously making 100s?  Yep, that’s why.

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WHERE THESE READING QUIZZES MIGHT FIT INTO A LOGICALLY-CONSTRUCTED LITERARY UNIT:

• At the beginning of a full literary unit, I like to first have students complete a Meet the Author biography research document. 
• Then, before students dive into the work, I want them to understand the difficult vocabulary they’ll encounter by having them complete a prereading vocabulary puzzle.
• Over the course of several weeks, students have reading assignments, take Reading Quizzes and complete Character Maps on the work while working on other things—usually involving grammar, writing style, and literary devices.
• Once we’ve completed the reading of the work, I have students complete a Plot Structure Mapping lesson so that students have a clear understanding of how the work is chronologically organized and how the major events of the work—including causes and effects associated with the inciting event, climax, and denouement—are tied in with conflicts and theme. 
• After students have a clear grasp of plot analysis, I then begin having students focus on themes, motifs and symbols in the work through a Hexagonal Thinking game/lesson and develop a Literary Analysis Web in preparation for a literary analysis essay. 
• From here, students should be quite capable of writing a literary argument essay on how the author utilizes these and other techniques to create meaning (themes) in the work. After a bit of peer editing & revising, this last essay serves as a cumulative assessment.

Looking for additional materials? . . .

• Click HERE if you'd like your students to complete Character Maps covering all of the chapters of Frankenstein.
• Click HERE if you're looking for other Frankenstein-related materials.

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