Narrative Quiz

What is a story's conflict?

• the main struggle between two opposing forces

• a small obstacle that a character overcomes easily

• an agreement between two opposing sides

• the final triumph of the person the story is about

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What do writers call the introduction to their story's conflict?

• the rising action

• the complication

• the inciting incident

• the resolution

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is rising action?

• the result after the final goal is achieved

• the series of complications that lead to the climax

• the point at which the conflict is resolved

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Which of the following indicates the very end of the story?

• conflict

• climax

• exposition

• resolution

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is the literary term for a story’s “main problem"?

• resolution

• plot

• conflict

• scene

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the goal of the story’s sequence of events?

• to make characters happy

• to resolve the conflict

• to make readers want to know more

• to introduce the main characters

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Which phrase briefly describes the setting of a story?

• where and when a story takes place

• the sequence the events in a story

• the conflict and its resolution in the story

• the people who appear in the story

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the best way to define narrative progression?

• the movement of time through a series of events in a story

• the way a narrative changes in form or structure

• the conflict of the story and how it is resolved

• the movement of story from character to character

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What word is often used as a transition tag to show the progression of time in a story?

• when

• then

• only

• since

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What is the usual way for a narrative to progress?

• A conflict is introduced and resolved during the first half of the story.

• A conflict is revealed at the beginning of the story and resolved by the end of the story.

• The exposition explains the problem at the heart of the story and hints at how it will be solved.

• The exposition focuses on the first few events of the story's rising action and then the climax.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9