The School For Good and Evil

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

Multiple Choice

1. By the final scene, what would both Agatha and Sophie include in their definition of good?

A) Incredible knowledge and wisdom

B) Helping others and forgiving

C) Excelling at everything and sharing

D) Height, singing voice, and beauty

2. How does Sophie react when dropped into the School for Evil?

A) She cackles delightedly and taunts Agatha about her placement.

B) She points out the beauty but writes about how much she misses home.

C) She protests that it is a mistake because she belongs in the School for Good.

D) She goes directly to the School Master to thank him with a gift.

3. Which of the following literary strategies does the author use in this quotation?

“Every tree, every flower, every blade of grass sparkled a different hue. Slender beams of sun slipped through cerulean canopies, lighting up turquoise trunks and navy blooms. Deer grazed on azure lilacs, crows and hummingbirds jabbered in sapphire nettles, squirrels and rabbits jaunted through cobalt briars to join storks sipping from an ultramarine pond.” (Chapter 10)

A) Foreshadowing

B) Imagery

C) Simile

D) Alliteration

4. Which of the following best explains Agatha’s realization about her own beauty?

A) She understands that her beauty grows as Sophie’s diminishes and decides to fight against Sophie.

B) She suddenly recognizes that she became beautiful the moment she entered the School for Good.

C) She accepts that she will not be beautiful and reconciles that with her magical talents, she will not need beauty.

D) She sees her reflection and realizes that her beauty has always been there and that happiness has helped it grow.

5. What do those in the School for Evil protest repeatedly?

A) Good has won for 200 years.

B) Evil does not get mirrors.

C) The forest is too light.

D) The Storian is far away.

6. How does the Storian trap Sophie and Agatha?

A) The Storian writes their fairy tale, making claims that become foreshadowing.

B) The Storian slides between the lock and a door, trapping them inside the tower.

C) The Storian writes the spell to lock them in the forest overnight.

D) The Storian chooses to move Agatha to the School for Evil with Sophie.

7. Which of the following best describes Tedros’s inner conflict?

A) He desires to be pure evil, but he does not want anyone to know.

B) He wishes to be more like the School Master, but he struggles to believe in himself.

C) He is afraid he cannot be strong, so he fears losing to his peers in the Trial.

D) He wants to find true love, not a relationship like his father found.

8. Which of the following most builds the theme of The Complex Nature of Good and Evil?

A) Sophie wanting to go with the School Master

B) Agatha putting a sword to Tedros’s throat

C) The Beast cutting Sophie’s hair

D) The teachers being frozen on the bridge

9. Why does the School Master help Sophie?

A) The School Master’s kindness means he will help anyone, no matter their actions.

B) The School Master sees Sophie’s goodness and tries to nurture it.

C) The School Master’s mother foretold that he must help Sophie or perish himself.

D) The School Master hopes Sophie can help him rule the Never After.

10. How is the color silver symbolic in the novel?

A) It symbolizes riches, which the School for Evil tries to amass to win the crown.

B) It symbolizes purity of spirit, with silver lights protecting students in the Trial.

C) It symbolizes unity, with every student having silver swans and uniforms at the end.

D) It symbolizes hatred since nemesis dreams contain silver until symptoms start. 

Long Answer

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

1. What power does the Storian have?

2. How do the swans reveal that everyone has good in them?