Quiz # 3 in English 10

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Multiple Choice
Directions: Read the following questions and write the letter of your answer before the number.

1. Which of these is the term for the “turning point of the story”?
a. exposition b. characterization c. climax d. conflict

2. When the author gives some background or needed details to the story this is known as what term?
a. characterization b. exposition c. foreshadowing d. point of view

3. The problem of the story also known as which story element?

a. character b. conflict c. exposition d. resolution

4. Which details the solution for the conflict of the story?

a. climax b. falling action c. resolution d. rising action

5. Who is the person with which the main character has conflict?
a. antagonist b. bad guy c. principal d. protagonist

6. What is the time and location in which a story takes place?

a. conflict b. plot c. point of view d. setting

7. The central, main character of the story is called____.

a. antagonist b. investigator c. instigator d. protagonist

8. What is a person or animal which takes part in the action of the story?
a. character b. plot c. resolution d. setting

9. Which of the following show the elements of plot in a usual order?

I. climax II. rising action III. exposition IV. falling action V. resolution
a. I,II,III,IV,V b. III,I,II,IV,V c. III,II,I,IV,V d. V,II,I,IV,III

10. If you are told a story takes place in a jungle on a mysterious island sometime in the 1940s involving an
eccentric hunter, you would be describing what aspect of a story?
a. conflict b. point of view c. resolution d. setting

11. Which of the following questions answers the specific purpose in a persuasive writing?
a. What are you trying to convince the reader to do? c. How persuasive are you with your reader?
b. What are you informing the reader? d. How will my reader influence my topic?

12. This refers to the writer of the story.

a. antagonist b. bad guy c. author d. protagonist

13. An author’s purpose may be found in titles, prefaces, and the author’s background.
a. True b. False c. maybe d. either

14. To tell what something looks like, sounds like, or feels like, the author uses
a. narrative writing b. descriptive writing c. persuasive writing d. expository writing

15. This reason for writing is focused on telling a story.

a. narrative writing b. descriptive writing c. persuasive writing d. expository writing

MATCHING TYPE
For 16-20, Match parts of the plot in column B with their appropriate meanings in column A. Write your
answer before the number.

16. This is the most exciting part of the story. a. Exposition

17. This part of the story introduces the conflict. b. Resolution
18. These answers when and where the story takes place. c. Climax
19. This is also known as the ending of the story. d. Rising Action
20. This is when the problem starts to have a solution. e. Falling Action