Reading Comprehension Quiz (Ellen Goodman, “The Family That Stretches (Together)”)

Reading Comprehension Quiz

Ellen Goodman, “The Family That Stretches (Together)”

Read “The Family That Stretches (Together)” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.

Question The title of this article is “The Family that Stretches (Together).” After reading this article, based on the punctuation of this title, what is the reader to infer?

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Question Based on the context of this article, a genealogist is someone who studies

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Question Goodman describes the young girl as having “a certainty that can only be mustered by the sort of a ten-year-old who keeps track of her own Frequent Flier coupons.” What does she wish for the reader to understand about this ten-year-old?

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Question The second and third paragraphs tell of the people whom the ten-year-old is staying with for the summer. Reading through these two paragraphs, who is the child biologically related to?

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Question What does Goodman mean when she writes that “families often extend along lines that are determined by decrees, rather than genes”?

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Question Goodman uses a metaphor in the second to last paragraph that compares nieces and nephews to what?

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Question In the last line, Goodman writes that “We are in the same family.” What does she intend for the reader to understand?

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