Cinder

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

Multiple Choice

1. Which character seems to care the least about Cinder being a cyborg?

A) Levana

B) Kai

C) Pearl

D) Peony

2. Which of the following characters does not die of letumosis?

A) Emperor Rikan

B) Garan

C) Peony

D) Iko

3. What motivated Levana to try to kill Cinder when she was a small child?

A) Cinder’s mother was the true heir to the Lunar throne.

B) Cinder witnessed Levana’s murder of Channary.

C) Cinder was already capable of great Lunar magic.

D) Cinder’s father led a rebellion against Levana.

4. Which best describes Adri’s attitude toward Cinder?

A) She is jealous of Cinder’s special abilities.

B) She thinks Cinder does not have a conscience.

C) She views Cinder as a disposable object.

D) She wishes that Cinder was fully human.

5. Which of the following best demonstrates the social status of cyborgs in Cinder’s society?

A) Cinder’s job

B) The cyborg draft

C) Iko’s attitude toward Cinder

D) The use of ID chips

6. Cinder’s decision to keep volunteering as part of the letumosis research is thematically most like which of the following?

A) Torin’s support of Kai’s wishes regarding Levana

B) Iko’s yearning to be allowed to attend the ball

C) Prince Kai’s attitude about becoming Emperor

D) Levana’s desire to marry Prince Kai

7. What do both Kai and Cinder use to conceal their identities?

A) Clothing

B) Glamour

C) False ID chips

D) Masks

8. Despite the law against Lunars living on earth, which two characters are eventually revealed to be Lunar?

A) Erland and Torin

B) Torin and Adri

C) Adri and Cinder

D) Cinder and Erland

9. Which aspect of technology in the novel best demonstrates how technology can be used to limit people’s freedom?

A) Netscreens

B) Portscreens

C) ID chips

D) Personality chips

10. What is one reasonable interpretation of what Cinder’s gloves symbolize?

A) Her desire to escape New Beijing and build a better life for herself

B) The burden created by social stigma against cyborgs

C) Her willingness to sacrifice her safety and comfort for others

D) The dangers of allowing technology to become a means of control

11. What is ironic about the way Chang Sacha reacts when her son gets too close to Cinder at the market?

A) Cinder saves Chang Sacha’s son later in the novel.

B) Chang Sacha is later revealed to be a cyborg.

C) Chang Sacha’s son is immune to letumosis.

D) Cinder is not even aware that the boy is close by.

12. When Dr. Erland tells Cinder in Chapter 11 that she has no idea of her worth and importance, what later revelation does this foreshadow?

A) Her immunity to Levana’s glamour

B) Kai’s romantic interest in her

C) Her birth identity

D) Adri’s decision to sell Iko

13. How does the revelation that Cinder is Princess Selene create circumstances for her that are similar to Kai’s circumstances?

A) They both lost their parents to political violence.

B) They are both expected to sacrifice their personal dreams in order to lead others.

C) They both must disguise their true identities in order to stay safe.

D) They are both unable to live up to the example set by their parents.

14. What is ironic about Cinder’s inability to let Kai know her true identity?

A) If Kai knew her real identity, he would not care that she is a cyborg.

B) If Kai knew her real identity, he would not think that she manipulated him.

C) Kai already suspects that she might be Princess Selene.

D) Kai has actually been searching for Princess Selene.

15. What is ironic about Cinder’s attempt to protect Kai by refusing to attend the ball with him?

A) She later goes to the ball, alerting Levana to her presence on earth.

B) Cinder is largely imagining the stigma against cyborgs.

C) Kai does not really want to become the emperor.

D) Her participation in the letumosis research endangers Kai’s reputation, too.

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. How does the course of Kai’s romantic interest in Cinder demonstrate his conflicting feelings about social class?

2. How do Cinder’s experiences during the letumosis research demonstrate her society’s attitude toward cyborgs?