Which of the following is an example of a question that requires students to…

Bloom's Taxonomy classifies cognitive learning objectives into six levels — Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating. A question that requires students to "analyze information" falls at the Analyzing level: it asks the learner to break material into its component parts and examine how those parts relate to or support one another, which is a deeper cognitive demand than simply recalling facts or restating an idea in one's own words.

Applying this to the four questions about the novel, only one of them asks the student to break the text into its components and examine how they function: it asks how the author uses symbolism, which requires identifying the symbols used, separating them from the rest of the narrative, and examining the relationship between each symbol and the meaning it conveys. That is precisely the kind of component-level breakdown and relationship-examination that Bloom's Taxonomy defines as Analysis.

• A question asking for the plot only requires recalling the sequence of events as narrated — a Remembering-level demand.

• A question asking for the theme typically requires restating the central message in the student's own words — an Understanding-level demand.

• A question asking who the protagonist is requires retrieving a single stored fact — a Remembering-level demand.

Since analyzing symbolism is the only one of the four tasks that requires decomposing the text into parts and examining the relationships among them, it is the example that matches the Analysis level asked for in the stem.