The Misfits

Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Chapters 1-4

Reading Check

1. What is the name of the town where Bobby lives?

2. What did Bobby and his friends originally call their weekly meeting at the Candy Kitchen?

Multiple Choice

1. Who is Mr. Kellerman?

A) Bobby’s father

B) Bobby’s boss

C) Skeezie’s boss

D) Skeezie’s father

2. Why does Addie get made fun of at school?

A) She wears a back brace.

B) She is slow and clumsy.

C) She cannot read very well.

D)  She is unusually smart and tall.

3. In Chapter 4, what question does Addie ask Mrs. Wyman about the nominating conventions?

A) She wants to know where Independents will meet.

B) She wants to know whether she will be allowed to run as a Republican.

C) She wants to know who will be in charge of each convention.

D) She wants to know how the voting will be kept secret.

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What do Bobby and his friends all have in common?

2. What advice does Bobby give Addie about saying the Pledge of Allegiance?

3. What kind of clothing did Joe like to wear when he was a small child?

Chapters 5-8

Reading Check

1. What kind of document is Chapter 6?

2. In Chapter 8, whom does Addie end up arguing with in the school cafeteria?

Multiple Choice

1. What does Joe tease Bobby about in Chapter 5?

A) his haircut

B) his shoes

C) his tie

D) his collar

2. When Bobby thinks about his and his friends’ futures, whom does he imagine will someday want to move away from Paintbrush Falls?

A) Skeezie and Bobby

B) Bobby and Joe

C) Joe and Addie

D) Addie and Skeezie

3. Why is DuShawn insulted by Addie’s suggestion that he run for president as her new party’s candidate?

A) He thinks that the idea of a third party is silly.

B) He knows that she only offered because she has a crush on him.

C) He does not want to be associated with the school “misfits.”

D) He knows that she only chose him because of his race.

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What does Pam tell Bobby about grouchy people?

2. In Chapter 6, what does Addie say she wants to create?

3. In Chapter 7, when Bobby is thinking about how his father never goes anywhere, what does he ask if his father would like to do?

Chapters 9-12

Reading Check

1. Why does Bobby think that Colin will not want to run for class secretary?

2. Who eventually agrees to run as the Freedom Party’s secretary?

Multiple Choice

1. When Bobby and his friends are at the Candy Kitchen in Chapter 10, what ethnic group does DuShawn use a derogatory term for?

A) Irish people

B) Chinese people

C) Mexican people

D) Pakistani people

2. What character is on the tie that Bobby and Mr. Kellerman argue about in Chapter 11?

A) Mickey Mouse

B) Daffy Duck

C) SpongeBob

D) Elmo

3. Who do both Joe and Addie have a crush on?

A) Colin

B) Skeezie

C) Bobby

D) DuShawn

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. How does a joke that DuShawn makes turn into an actual platform for Addie’s new political party?

2. What causes DuShawn to say that Bobby and his friends have it worse than DuShawn and his friends?

3. In Chapter 11, what does Bobby ask Kelsey, and what is her answer?

Chapters 13-16

Reading Check

1. What new name does Bobby suggest for their party in Chapter 14?

2. Who does Skeezie think might have a crush on Addie?

Multiple Choice

1. What does the school principal think is Addie’s reason for refusing to say the Pledge and forming her own political party?

A) He thinks she is trying to impress her teacher.

B) He thinks she wants to cause trouble for the school.

C) He thinks she is just looking for attention.

D) He thinks she hates America.

2. Why does Addie get angry at Skeezie in Chapter 15?

A) He makes a mean joke about her height.

B) He tells her that she should just say the Pledge of Allegiance.

C) He threatens to leave her political party.

D) He has told their friends about her crush.

3. Who leaves a note in Joe’s locker in Chapter 16?

A) Addie

B) Kelsey

C) DuShawn

D) Colin

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. In Chapter 13, what happens in the school hallway that gives Bobby an idea for what the purpose of the new political party should be?

2. What does Bobby plan to do with the list of mean names that he and his friends have been called?

3. How do the friends manage to put up their posters in secret?

Chapters 17-20

Reading Check

1. In Chapter 17, what does Addie tell her friends Ms. Wyman called her into her office to talk about?

2. What do Bobby and Addie notice when they arrive at school on Wednesday?

Multiple Choice

1. What was Bobby’s mother’s profession?

A) floral designer

B) real estate agent

C) actress

D) veterinarian

2. What changes the principal’s mind about the No-Name Party?

A) Bobby speaks up and explains it.

B) A parent calls to complain about bullying.

C) Addie stages a protest in the cafeteria.

D) The principal finds out that his daughter is being called names.

3. Why did Mr. Kellerman’s wife leave him?

A) She fell in love with someone she worked with.

B) She did not like spending so much time with his mother.

C) She was tired of him criticizing her for spending money.

D) She was offered a job in London, England.

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What news does Bobby share with his friends at the Candy Kitchen in Chapter 17?

2. In Chapter 18, what does Bobby accuse his father of giving up on?

3. When his friends worry that their campaign posters might cause kids to call them names, what does Bobby point out to them?

Chapters 21-24

Reading Check

1. What action of Bobby’s in Chapter 22 shows that he is nervous about making the phone call to Kelsey?

2. When he tells Mr. Kellerman about the No-Name Party, what does Bobby learn about Mr. Kellerman?

Multiple Choice

1. In Chapter 21, what does Bobby try to discourage Addie from including in her campaign speech?

A) the lyrics from a popular song about bullying

B) criticisms of Ms. Wyman and Mr. Kiley

C) personal stories about times she has been bullied

D) information from historical documents

2. In Chapter 22, what does Bobby ask for Kelsey’s advice about?

A) how to talk to Mr. Kellerman

B) cooking

C) Addie’s campaign speech

D) an art project

3. In Chapter 23, what is Skeezie’s theory about why Kelsey barely talks to Bobby?

A) Bobby makes her feel shy, because she has a crush on him.

B) Bobby gets excited and talks too much when he is around Kelsey.

C) She likes Bobby as a friend, but she has a crush on Joe.

D) She gets teased by other kids when she talks to Bobby.

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What does Pam tell Bobby people expect from you when you are beautiful?

2.  In Chapter 23, what does Joe compare Colin and Addie’s relationship to?

3.  In Chapter 24, what does Addie tell Bobby that she wants him to do?

Chapters 25-27

Reading Check

1. What nickname did Bobby get in the third grade?

2. Who drew the heart with Bobby’s initials in it?

Multiple Choice

1. Right before the assembly, what surprising thing does Ms. Wyman tell Addie?

A) Mr. Kiley has changed his mind about the No-Name Party.

B)  It is fine if Addie wants Bobby to deliver her speech.

C) Ms. Wyman admires Addie’s spirit.

D) Addie’s parents are in the audience for the assembly.

2. What does Bobby tell the assembled students the No-Name Party will start at their school?

A) a No-Name charity drive

B) No-Name Party sports teams

C) No-Name lunch tables

D) a No-Name Day

3. What does Kelsey ask Bobby once his speech is over?

A) when is the next time his friends will be at the Candy Kitchen

B) whether he will go with her to the dance

C) whether he would like her help with his art project

D) whether she can join the No-Name Party

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What does Bobby’s dad tell him is “what being a dad is all about” (Chapter 25)?

2. In his speech, what does Bobby say makes his friends the bravest people he knows?

3. How does Bobby’s father react to the campaign speech that Bobby gives?

Chapters 28-30

Reading Check

1. Which party wins the student council elections?

2. Which member of the “Gang of Five” becomes a writer later in life?

Multiple Choice

1. In Chapter 28, who invites Addie to the dance?

A) Joe

B) Colin

C) DuShawn

D) Skeezie

2. What is the Forum topic that Addie announces in Chapter 29?

A) plans for the No-Name Party’s next election

B) what everyone wants to be when they grow up

C) advice about how to talk to someone you have a crush on

D) which of the eighth grade teachers is the nicest

3. Whom does Skeezie end up marrying later in life?

A) Addie

B) Kelsey

C) Steffi

D) Brittany

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. On the day after the election, what does Mr. Kiley tell Bobby and his friends when he calls them into his office?

2. In Chapter 29, what does Bobby tell his friends about his plan to stay in Paintbrush Falls?

In later life, how do Addie’s interest in politics and her rebellious nature end up making her successful?