Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key plot points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Prologue-Chapters 21

Reading Check

1. Who sucks up Ulysses with their vacuum?

2. How does Flora save Ulysses from death?

3. What does Flora think her mother loves more than her?

4. What does William claim is his affliction?

Short Answer

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

1. Who is Flora’s fictional hero and why?

2. What unconventional superpower does Ulysses have, and how does he reveal it?

3. How does Flora’s mother react to finding her typewriter has been used?

Paired Resources

How to Create Comics

• This resource explains comics-related terminology.
• Choose a comic strip image from the novel. Can you identify an artistic element or technique that the artist, K. G. Campbell, employed? What purpose does the technique or element serve?

“Calvin and Hobbes: ‘You Got an A’”

• This Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Patterson showcases an unconventional approach to comic strip formatting.
• What effect does this comic format produce? Where is your eye directed as you read, and how does this comic strip differ from a typical one? Are the comic strips in the novel more conventional or unconventional?