The Adoration of Jenna Fox

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

Multiple Choice

1. Which statement best illustrates Jenna’s infantile understanding of the world at the beginning of the novel?

A) Jenna describes Mr. Bender as “sitting on his haunches, like I have seen three-year-old Jenna do in the video discs.”

B) Jenna becomes frustrated when she is unable to feed the birds.

C) Jenna realizes for the first time that she has only been living in California for two weeks.

D) Jenna yearns to meet someone outside “her own curious circle.”

2. Why does The Adoration of Jenna Fox qualify as a cross-genre novel?

A) It has aspects of a family drama as well as science fiction.

B) It has aspects of fantasy as well as science fiction.

C) It has aspects of an epic tale as well as fantasy.

D) It has aspects of a dystopian novel as well as historical fiction.

3. Why is it so important to Jenna to make connections outside of her family?

A) She feels isolated and controlled at home.

B) She does not get along with Lily.

C) Her friends help her escape her injuries.

D) She does not like her mother.

4. What is an example of Jenna’s desire to connect with the natural world?

A) Her memorization of Walden

B) Her walks

C) Her desire to feed the sparrows with Mr. Bender

D) Her digging in the dirt with the volunteer group

5. What is the first thing to make Jenna feel whole?

A) Her connections with her family

B) Her connections with her grandmother

C) Her connections with her friends

D) Her connections with her old self

6. Which characters suffer from the unethical practice of overusing antibiotics?

A) Lily and Allys

B) Jenna’s grandfather and Allys

C) Ethan and Dane

D) Jenna and Claire

7. Which of the following is the best example of the novel’s theme about Choice (Can vs. Should)?

A) Allys’s decision to join the FSEB

B) Lily’s decision to regularly attend mass

C) Jenna’s decision to go to school

D) Allys’s parents’ decision to ask Jenna’s father about Bio Gel

8. What is the most likely reason Jenna asks for red curtains in her room?

A) It reminds her of the red skirt she bought with Kara.

B) Red is her favorite color.

C) The curtains hanging in the mission are also red.

D) It reminds her of her old school in Boston.

9. What is Jenna’s greatest fear after she realizes she is has been biogenetically engineered?

A) That she is abnormal

B) That she is not human

C) That she will not make friends

D) That her parents can force her to do things she doesn’t want to do

10. What is the “marrow of Jenna Fox”?

A) Her essential qualities, such as memories from her past life

B) Her uploaded data, such as the Boston school curriculum

C) The part of her that is left, such as some of her skin

D) The Bio Gel part of her body, such as her bones

11. In contrast to Jenna’s parents, Lily exhibits behaviors that encourage Jenna to grow. How does she do this?

A) She frequently criticizes Jenna for how unnatural she is.

B) She asks Jenna questions about who she is and wants to be.

C) She gives Jenna hints about what her parents have done to her.

D) She uses bioengineering to illustrate what Jenna’s parents did was wrong.

12. When does Jenna realize that she cares about her new life?

A) When she meets Ethan and Allys

B) When she meets Mr. Bender

C) When she realizes her friends have a backup brain

D) When she realizes she can analyze Walden on her own

13. What decisive action makes Jenna Fox a girl just like any other?

A) Destroying the brain backups of her friends

B) Destroying her own brain backup

C) Removing the subliminal directives from her parents

D) Getting rid of the Bio Gel in her body

14. How does Lily’s character change throughout the novel?

A) From happy for Claire to disturbed by what Jenna has become

B) From hoping for more flexibility in Jenna to helping her achieve it

C) From having no room for the new Jenna to loving her the same as before

D) From hating bioengineering to being grateful for it

15. What does the book’s title, The Adoration of Jenna Fox, refer to?

A) The admiration the world feels for Jenna as she becomes the pioneer for Bio Gel

B) The admiration Allys and Ethan feel for Jenna as she evolves into a strong character

C) The admiration Lily feels for Jenna as she develops the ability to make her own choices

D) The admiration Jenna’s parents feel for her as represented in the home videos

Long Answer

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

1. The Adoration of Jenna Fox contains various examples of Parent-Child Relationships. Explain how the relationship between Jenna and Claire is like the relationship between Claire and Lily.

2. Compare “old Jenna” with “new Jenna.” Why do you think new Jenna chooses to leave old Jenna behind?