1. Three Levels of Questions
Using Cinderella as a model

2. What were Cinderella's slippers made out of?
Level 1: Recall
The answer is in the text; explicit, fact (fully and clearly expressed; leaving nothing implied)
This type of questions is very concrete and pertains only to the text.
Asks for facts about what has been heard or read.
Information is recalled in the exact manner/form it was heard
What were Cinderella's slippers made out of?
How did Cinderella get to the ball?

3. Level 2: Analysis/Inference
The answer can be inferred from the text.
This type question, although more abstract than a Level One question, deals only with the text.
Information can be broken down into parts.
It involves examining in detail, analyzing motives or causes, making inferences, finding information to support generalizations or decision-making.
Questions combine information in a new way.
Why does Cinderella's stepmother care whether or not she goes to the ball?
Why did everything turn back the way it was except the glass slipper?
Why don't the step sisters like Cinderella?

4. Level 3: Synthesis Does a woman's salvation always lie with a man?
The answer goes beyond the text and inquire into the value, importance and application of the information presented.
These questions ask that judgments be made from information.
They also give opinions about issues, judge the validity of ideas or other products and justify opinions and ideas.
Does a woman's salvation always lie with a man?
What does it mean to live happily ever after?
Does good always overcome evil?