Coraline

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-book review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. What is one difference between Coraline’s real world and the other world?

A) The other world is better because Coraline is happy there.

B) The other world seems superior, but it is an illusory trap.

C) The real world has no joy, but the other world is dangerous.

D) The real world does not make Coraline suffer boredom.

2. What is the two older women’s performance in the other world likely a reflection of?

A) Their newfound abilities in the other world

B) The hopes and dreams they have for the future

C) Living out their former lives in their memories

D) Original performances inspired by what they wish they’d done

3. How might Coraline define her parents’ relationship with her at the beginning of the novel?

A) Neglectful

B) Attentive

C) Typical

D) Irritable

4. How does Coraline benefit from the new other world?

A) She is protected from harm by being locked inside.

B) She learns how to be brave.

C) She experiences the true love of a devoted parent.

D) She gets to feel safety and belonging.

5. What is the other world representative of?

A) The excitement of the impossible

B) How Coraline’s life should be

C) The realities of fulfilled desires

D) Life with a perfect mother

6. What do the tea leaves and the message from the mice foreshadow in the novel?