Coraline: Chapter 11

Multiple Choice

Which statement best summarizes the events on page 2 of the provided text?

• Coraline argues with the other mother about her parents, noting the altered furniture and painting in the drawing room, and hands over the glass marbles.

• Coraline re-enters the flat, realizes the other mother's true, unsettling appearance, and attempts to protect the cat while the other mother demands to know where her parents are.

• Coraline returns to the other mother's flat, where she is asked about her parents' whereabouts and sees the other mother's deceptive look while holding the cat and marbles.

• The other mother confronts Coraline in the familiar yet transformed flat, observing Coraline's cat and questioning her, as Coraline prepares for a crucial confrontation.

Multiple Choice

RL 7.3: Which character trait best describes Coraline's actions and thoughts on page 2?

• Defiant: She directly challenges the other mother's claim of love and refuses to be intimidated by her presence and brags about the ease of the games she's won.

• Observant: She notices the subtle changes in the flat, such as the eaten fruit in the painting, and the other mother's altered appearance.

• Determined: She knows this is "the moment of truth" and holds her ground against the other mother, despite feeling fear.

• Cautious: She is careful not to provoke the cat and get it angry and pretends not to notice the other mother's stare.

Multiple Choice

Which statement best summarizes the events on page 3?

• Coraline tricks the other mother into opening the cellar door, claiming her parents are there, then uses the cat as a distraction to escape.

• Coraline states her parents are behind the passageway door; the other mother opens it to an empty corridor; Coraline throws the cat and flees.

• The other mother gives Coraline a hint that her parents are located somewhere else in the flat and Coraline sets out to find them.

• Coraline deduces her parents' location, persuades the other mother to unlock the door, then trades the cat f

Multiple Choice

RL 7.5: Which best explains the author's choice to include the other mother's "hint of a smile" on page 3?

"The other mother remained statue still, but a hint of a smile crept back onto her face. "Oh, they are, are they?"

• To emphasize the other mother's deceptive nature and her confidence that she won against Coraline.

• To foreshadow Coraline's eventual victory over the other mother, as her smile indicates a false sense of security.

• To create relief by suggesting that the other mother was surprised by Coraline's apparent cleverness.

• To highlight the other mother's playful nature knowing she would give Coraline more games/ challenges.

Multiple Choice

Which statement best summarizes the events on page 4?

• After the other mother reveals the empty corridor, Coraline throws the cat at her, grabs the snow globe, and key before rushing into the passageway.

• Coraline grabs the snow globe and escapes into the dark corridor leaving the cat behind to fight the other mother.

• Coraline uses the cat to distract the other mother, then sneaks to the corridor forgetting to grab the snow globe and has to go back to get it.

• The cat savagely attacks the other mother, allowing Coraline to seize the snow globe but she still needs to take the key from the other mothers hands.

Multiple Choice

RL 7.4: Which best explains the author's choice to describe the other mother's blood as "a deep, tarry black stuff" on page 4?

"The cat made a deep, ululating yowl and sank its teeth into the other mother's cheek. She was flailing at it. Blood ran from the cuts on her white face not red blood but a deep, tarry black stuff."

• To create a more settling image for the reader, enhancing the connection to what a real human character would have.

• To foreshadow that the other mother is made of something magical, linked to Coraline's real parents.

• To emphasize the other mother's monstrous, inhuman nature, distinguishing her from real humans.

• To suggest that the other mother is not truly real and is something of Coraline's imagination.

Multiple Choice

Which statement best summarizes the events on page 5?

• Coraline receives spectral assistance from the ghost children and adults, helping her close the heavy door against a powerful resistance, the door eventually opens and she faces the other mother.

• Coraline struggles to close the door, receiving aid from unseen hands of the ghost children and adults, successfully shutting it, and then starts to flee through the unsettling corridor.

• With help from the cat fighting the other mother, Coraline manages to close the door by herself, and then she immediately begins her uphill run through the dark and physically changing corridor.

• The ghost children and adults lend their strength to Coraline, enabling her to open the heavy door, after which they battle the other mother and defeat her.

Multiple Choice

RL 7.3: Which connection can be made between the ghost children's assistance on page 5 and earlier events in the story?

• Their ghostly aid fulfills the promise Coraline made to them to rescue their eyes and help them move on.

• Their help confirms Coraline's belief that they were weak being ghost and needed someone to save them more than they could help others.

• Their encouragement reflects that they were able to escape only when they doorway was opened.

• Their presence implies that the other mother's power only worked when she wasn't bleeding blackness.

Multiple Choice

Which statement best summarizes the events on page 6?

• Coraline escapes the dangerous corridor, discovering her true home restored to its natural beauty, with her parents now freed and in their rooms sleep.

• Coraline emerges from the unsettling corridor into her real home, and falls into a deep sleep where she has nightmares of the other mother.

• Coraline and the cat flee the terrifying corridor, arrive back in Coraline's familiar flat, and Coraline compares how perfect the other world was to hers.

• Coraline runs from the dark corridor into her flat, locks the door, apologizes to the cat, and then appreciates the vivid reality of her home before sleeping deeply.

Multiple Choice

RL 7.3: Which best describes an indirect character trait revealed about Coraline on page 6?

Type 1: Direct Characterization

The author directly tells us the type of character they are: lazy, spoiled

Type 2: Indirect Characterization

The author only gives us hints and we must determine what kind of character they are

• Her laziness by the way she fell asleep as soon as she realized she was back home.

• Her appreciation for simple things by her acceptance of being bak in her real home.

• Her reluctance to own up to her wrongdoings by ignoring the cat after what she did.

• Her pridefulness by thinking how easily she escaped the other mother.

Multiple Choice

Which event from the text best represents "The Resurrection" stage in the Hero's Journey from this chapter?

The Resurrection: The hero faces a final, ultimate test, often a final confrontation with death or a major antagonist, representing a purification or rebirth before returning to ordinary life. This is the last major hurdle.

• Coraline successfully outwitting the other mother by convincing her to open the door to the empty corridor.

• Coraline throwing the black cat at the other mother as a distraction, allowing her to grab the snow globe.

• Coraline's struggle to close the door against the other mother, aided by the ghost children and adults.

• Coraline's desperate run through the dark, transforming corridor, feeling it to be "older by far than the other mother".