The Night Face Up Selection Test Review
Authored by Lindsey Miller
English
10th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on literary analysis and vocabulary comprehension for the short story "The Night Face Up" by Julio Cortázar, designed for 10th grade English students. The assessment evaluates students' understanding of advanced vocabulary words including solace, lucid, beneficent, consecrate, and translucent, requiring them to demonstrate contextual comprehension through application rather than simple definition recall. Students must analyze sophisticated literary techniques such as parallelism, foreshadowing, irony, and shifts in narrative perspective that create the story's dreamlike confusion between reality and fantasy. The quiz also tests close reading skills through textual analysis questions that require students to interpret author's purpose, identify literary devices in specific passages, and make connections between parallel elements in the dual narrative structure. Additionally, students demonstrate grammar knowledge by identifying methods for combining simple sentences into complex sentences, reinforcing the connection between literary analysis and writing mechanics. Created by Lindsey Miller, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 10. This comprehensive review quiz serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a formative assessment tool to gauge student comprehension before a unit test, or as a homework assignment to reinforce key concepts from class discussions. Teachers can implement this as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge about literary devices and vocabulary, or use it during review sessions to identify areas where students need additional support. The quiz format makes it particularly valuable for test preparation, allowing students to practice the types of analytical thinking required for more extensive assessments. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4 for determining word meanings and analyzing cumulative impact of word choices, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5 for analyzing how authors' choices create effects such as mystery and suspense, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4 for determining meanings of unknown words and phrases through context clues and analysis.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Vocabulary:
Which of the following might give you a feelings of solace?
a difficult homework assignment
a home-cooked meal
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Vocabulary:
Which of the following describes something a lucid person would be able to do?
Hallucinate
Follow directions
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Vocabulary:
Which of the following is a beneficent act?
donating food supplies to a shelter
throwing away a recyclable bottle
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Vocabulary:
Which person has the authority to consecrate something?
A religious leader
a healthcare professional
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Vocabulary:
which of the following describes something that is translucent?
frosted glass
a cement wall
Tags
CCSS.RF.3.3B
CCSS.RF.3.3C
CCSS.RF.3.3D
CCSS.RF.4.3A
CCSS.RF.5.3A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Which technique does the author use in "The Night Face Up" to keep the reader confused about which events are real and which are dreams?
Irony
Parallelism
Shifts
Antithesis
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What are some ways to combine simple sentences into complex sentences?
Splitting the sentences into smaller parts
Combining them using commas and conjunctions
Tags
CCSS.RF.3.3B
CCSS.RF.3.3C
CCSS.RF.3.3D
CCSS.RF.4.3A
CCSS.RF.5.3A
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