Coraline

This is a paragraph from the book broken down into sentences. Which of the following sentences has the most vivid example of sensory imagery?

• For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible.

• She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea.

• The limeade was very interesting.

• It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical.

• Coraline liked it enormously. She wished they had it at home.

After the drawing room door was locked, the cat advised Coraline to...

• challenge the other mother to a game

• open the windows to allow in natural light

• slide an "SOS" message under it

• stay alert and hold a charm all night long

What new object did Coraline notice in the other mothers' drawing room?

• a snow globe

• a portrait of Coraline with her other parents

• a sparkling miror

• a basket of shiny apples

When the other father laughed at Coraline in the cellar, she ...

• trapped him by spinning him into the sticky spiderwebs in the corner

• held him down and sewed his mouth closed with a needle from her button box

• closed her hand around his remaining button eye and tugged it off

• threw her marbles under his feet, making him slip and slide around

What did Coraline do that resulted in the hand falling into the well?

• She set the marbles on a loose brick on the well's edge.

• She swung on a tire swing back and forth across the well's opening.

• She tied the hand to her bicycle and dragged it over the well.

• She set up a pretend tea party over the top of the well.

After seeing danger in Coraline's tea leaves, Miss Spink gave her a ...

• lesson in pretending to be brave

• stone with a hole in it

• green rabbit's foot

• tiny jeweled dagger

Where did Coraline find the black rats that made a pyramid and sang a song?

• under the bed in her other bedroom.

• on a ledge inside the old well.

• next to one of the shrubs her other dad had pruned.

• in a cupboard in Miss Spink and Miss Forcible's flat

What happened when Coraline took the stage with April and Miriam?

• A blindfolded Miriam threw a knife to pop a balloon on Coraline's head

• A giant spider picked up Coraline and wrapped her in silk thread.

• April gave Coraline a map of the beldam's lair

• Coraline donned a clown costume and juggled six giant, hissing beetles.

Why couldn't the three figures leave the cupboard when Coraline left?

• Their souls would fly away forever.

• Their energy was keeping Coraline's neighbor

• They were chained to the wall.

• The light would burn and shrivel them

How did Coraline distract her other mother in order to grab the snow globe?

• She screamed that a rat was behind her other mother.

• She pretended to throw a tantrum.

• She threw the black cat toward her other mother's head.

• She begged her other mother to find some marbles.