“Hansel and Gretel” by the Brothers Grimm Quiz and Close Reading Bundle

For many high school readers, age-appropriate fantasy and fairy tale fiction are genres that maximize engagement with literature. This quiz and close reading activity bundle covers “Hansel and Gretel” by the Brothers Grimm and helps English teachers promote homework accountability, evaluate general reading comprehension, support the development of literary analysis skills, and save time at home without sacrificing rigor in the classroom. Included are the following: a multiple choice, plot-based assessment; a worksheet composed of challenging analysis questions; answer keys; and a copy of the public domain short story. Materials are delivered in printable Word Document and PDF formats.

By engaging with these materials, students will:

• Identify what the text states explicitly as well as implicitly
• Analyze dialogue to discern how a character uses manipulative tactics to achieve a goal
• Analyze characterization to discern and articulate a dominant internal conflict in the text
• Apply knowledge of alliteration to the text
• Analyze the authors’ word choices to discern and articulate how these choices create the literary device of paradox
• Identify several examples of simile in the text
• Apply knowledge of dramatic irony to the text, discerning and articulating how it manifests
• Apply knowledge of situational irony to the text, discerning and articulating how it manifests
• Apply knowledge of foreshadowing to the text, explaining what is foreshadowed and how
• Write with clarity and precision