Everything Sad Is Untrue

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

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Reading Check

1. Where does Khosrou’s father live?

2. How old is Khosrou?

3. Name something that Daniel has forgotten.

4. What happened to Aziz’s father?

Short Answer

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

1. Why did Daniel and his family move to Oklahoma?

2. According to Daniel’s father, how did their family get their land?

3. Why does Daniel think he will one day have to fight Ray?

4. Why did Daniel’s mother get him a Miami Dolphins hat?

Paired Resource

“The Importance of Storytelling”

• This presentation by Emmanuel Dzotsi is a TEDx talk at Ohio State University that describes his experience of learning stories in filmmaking.
• This video connects to the theme of Storytelling as a Way of Remembering and Surviving.
• How is Dzotsi’s talk similar to how Daniel talks about wanting to relate to his classmates? How is his argument about storytelling being important connected to Daniel’s use of stories so far?

“A Thousand and One Nights: Arabian Story-telling in World Literature”

• This blog post from the Library of Congress introduces One Thousand and One Nights, providing useful context about the story and its structure as a frame narrative.