Inkheart

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

Multiple Choice

1. Who appears in Meggie and Mo’s garden in the opening chapter?

A) Basta

B) Dustfinger

C) Capricorn

D) Elinor

2. Elinor’s most prized books are kept in which place in her house?

A) Library

B) Kitchen

C) Attic

D) Book box

3. Dustfinger betrays Meggie to Capricorn because:

A) Capricorn threatens to kill Dustfinger if he does not cooperate.

B) Mo asks Dustfinger to bring Meggie to him.

C) Capricorn promises Dustfinger that he will be read back into Inkheart if he helps.

D) Dustfinger is a villain.

4. Mo accidentally reads Farid from which book?

A) A Thousand and One Nights

B) Peter Pan

C) Treasure Island

D) The Lord of the Rings

5. Who helps Elinor, Mo, Meggie, and Farid escape from Capricorn’s prison?

A) Dustfinger

B) Fenoglio

C) Basta

D) Resa

6. Who are the first, second, and third characters (in chronological order) that Meggie reads out of books?

A) Farid, the Shadow, and the tin soldier

B) The tin soldier, the Shadow, and Tinkerbell

C) Tinkerbell, the tin soldier, and the Shadow

D) Resa, Farid, and the Shadow

7. What happens to Resa after she is read out of the Inkheart world by Dustin?

A) She loses her voice.

B) She becomes timid.

C) She is afraid of snakes.

D) She falls in love with Dustfinger.

8. Why do Farid and Mo start a fire in Capricorn’s village?

A) To create a distraction

B) To kill Capricorn

C) To save Resa

D) As a signal for Dustfinger

9. Where do Meggie, Mo, and Resa live at the end of the novel?

A) At Elinor’s house

B) At Mo and Meggie’s old house

C) In the caravan

D) In Capricorn’s village with the people from the Shadow

10. What does Meggie decide that she wants to do with her life?

A) Become a fire breather, like Dustfinger

B) Become a book collector, like Elinor

C) Become a book binder, like her father

D) Become an author, like Fenoglio 

Long Answer

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

1. In the opening chapters, what kind of a father is Mo?

2. The reader learns that Mo sleeps with a picture of Teresa. What does this suggest about his feelings for her?

3. Dustfinger betrays Meggie by distracting her while Capricorn’s men take Mo, but then his face reddens with shame as she weeps. What does this suggest about Dustfinger’s character?

4. What does Elinor’s slowly regrowing library symbolize?

5. Why is it symbolic that the Shadow vanquishes Capricorn?

6. Describe Elinor’s house at the close of the novel.