Crime Fiction Quiz

Crime stories are like jigsaw puzzles because the reader is constantly collecting...

What is the name of the technique that crime writers use to make the reader believe that someone other than the culprit committed the crime?

• sleuth

• red herring

• clues

• evidence

A claim (or piece of evidence) that shows that a person was elsewhere when a criminal is alleged to have taken place is called...

• A Suspect

• Clues

• A Decoy

• An Alibi

The characteristics or aspects that allow us to identify a crime fiction text are called crime genre...

The crime fiction plot usually follows the structure of...

• Clues →Crime → Evidence →Punishment→ Solution

• Crime → Clues → Evidence → Solution → Punishment

• Evidence → Clues→ Crime → Solution → Punishment

• Crime → Solution → Evidence → Clues→ Punishment

It can not be a crime fiction story without two things...

• A suspect and a detective

• A crime and a victim

• Clues and evidence

• A crime and a person solving the crime

What is the technique called when the reader of the story knows more than the characters in the story?

• Dramatic Irony

• Foreshadowing

• Verbal Irony

• Flashback

When a detective believes a particular person has committed a crime, that person is called a...

True or False: To be considered part of the crime fiction genre, a story must have a professional investigator solving the crime

• True: the detective must have training

• False: anyone can be trying to solve the crime- even an amateur or everyday person

In their writing, the crime writer always aims for the reader to experience...

• suspense

• mystery or curiosity

• tension

• all of the above