Matched Study Questions
Questions - Chapters 1-7
1. What is the premise of "Matched"?
2. What are the artifacts that Cassia and Xander carry with them at the beginning of the book?
3. Why is Cassia especially pleased with the Matching Banquet she and Xander are attending?
4. Explain how the Matching ceremony takes place.
5. Who is Cassia Matched to at the Match Banquet?
6. How do Cassia and her parents feel about Xander for her Match?
7. What is the importance of the Matching system?
8. How are the red pills used as foreshadowing in the story?
9. What is Cassia's special talent in the Society?
10. How is Cassia's ordered world thrown off when she looks at her micro card to learn more about Xander?
11. How does Cassia feel about her Match and the image of someone else's face on her micro card?
12. Explain Grandfather's Final Banquet.
Questions - 8-14
13. Why can't Cassia get more information about Ky?
14. How is Ky different from everyone else during a film's death scene?
15. What does Cassia realize about Grandfather's risky words that he passed on to her on a paper?
16. When does Cassia wonder if her Match should really be Ky?
17. Why are the Officials searching Cassia's house after Grandfather is gone?
18. Why does Cassia resist taking her green pills?
19. Where does Cassia decide to get rid of Grandfather's paper and why is it so risky?
20. What outdoor activity is Cassia excited to undertake based on stories about nature that her family has
told her?
21. What is no longer possible now that Grandfather's tissue samples have been lost?
22. What role did Grandfather play in Cassia's life?
23. How are Cassia and her father alike in that they both destroyed part of Grandfather?
24. What does Cassia feel about her father's destruction of Grandfather's tissue samples?
Questions - Chapters 15-21
25. What artifact does Ky give to Cassia when she thought he would be returning her compact?
26. What secret activity does Cassia ask Ky to teach her?
27. What is the first word that Ky teaches Cassia to write?
28. What is depicted on the napkin that Ky gives to Cassia?
29. Why does Cassia think that she shouldn't be Matched to Xander?
30. Why does Cassia have such a connection with nature?
31. Why does Ky teach Cassia to write her name?
32. What does Cassia learn about the value of words in keeping a person alive?
33. Describe how the connection between Cassia and Ky develops.
34. What is significant of Ky's behavior when playing games with Xander?
35. How does Cassia realize that she and her mother are alike?
36. What does Ky tell Cassia that he is and how does she feel about it?
Questions - Chapters 22-28
37. How does the Official subtly blackmail Cassia regarding her sorting work and the choices she makes?
38. What does the Official warn Cassia might happen to Ky if they maintain their relationship?
39. What is Society doing in the middle of the night that Cassia's mother considers to be a warning for her?
40. What is the Prisoner's Dilemma and how does it relate to Cassia and Ky?
41. Why does Society not want Cassia to be with Ky and what is Cassia's opinion of that?
42. How are Cassia and her family warned about their behavior with the cutting of the maple trees?
43. What gift does Ky give to Cassia and why does she withhold her feelings from him?
44. Why does Cassia hold back from telling Ky that she saw his face on the screen at her Match Banquet?
45. What very difficult sorting decision does Cassia make regarding Ky and his workplace?
46. In what ways are Cassia and her mother alike?
47. What does Ky mean when he tells Cassia they are running out of time and how does he feel about the
decision Cassia made for him at his workplace?
48. What does Ky give to Cassia after they kiss on top of the hill?
Questions - Chapters 29-32
49. Describe what happens on the morning Ky is taken away.
50. What is the purpose of the red pills and why does Cassia not take hers?
51. Where does Cassia go in hopes of finding out where Ky is being sent?
52. What does Cassia's Official tell her about her Match?
53. What does the shrieking of trees foreshadow in this chapter?
54. Why does Cassia refuse to take the red pill to forget painful events?
55. Why does Cassia feel so guilty about Ky's deportation?
56. Why is Xander able to remember everything that happened on the morning that Ky was taken?
57. How does Xander feel about Cassia's going after Ky and what does he give he for her journey?
58. What do Cassia's parents feel about her need to go find Ky?
59. Why are Cassia's parents so supportive about her need to search for Ky?
60. Where is Cassia working at the end of the story and what is her main objective now?