We Are All Made of Molecules

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

Multiple Choice

1. What is Ashley’s motivation for mistreating others?

A) Hatred

B) Deflection

C) Anger

D) Embarrassment

2. What best identifies Stewart’s inability to fit in at school?

A) He lacks social awareness.

B) He is not inclusive.

C) He has no fashion sense.

D) He struggles with academia.

3. How does Stewart’s explanation of his mother’s molecules have an impact on his relationship with Ashley?

A) She is unable to empathize with his feelings.

B) She begins to soften toward him.

C) She becomes more antagonistic toward him.

D) She believes he is stranger than she once thought.

4. At the start of the novel, which of the characters most benefits from the novel’s theme of Exclusionary Social Hierarchy?

A) Phil

B) Caroline

C) Ashley

D) Phoebe

5. Why are the accounts of events in the novel sometimes conflicting?

A) Ashley is driven by peer pressure and fashion.

B) The characters grow and change their minds.

C) It is told from two different perspectives.

D) An omniscient narrator tricks the characters.

6. How does Ashley cope with her new family toward the beginning of the novel?

A) She self-isolates.

B) She antagonizes Leonard.

C) She avoids her home.

D) She goes shopping.

7. What can the reader determine is most important to Ashley?

A) Her high-maintenance social media presence

B) How she is perceived by her peers

C) Her relationship with her father

D) What her boyfriend looks like

8. What is the significance of the novel’s title, We Are All Made of Molecules?