The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket
Authored by CHRISTINE EVANS
English
9th Grade
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This quiz focuses on literary analysis and close reading comprehension of Yasunari Kawabata's short story "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket." Designed for 9th grade students, the assessment evaluates multiple layers of reading comprehension including grammar analysis, inference skills, literary device identification, and thematic understanding. Students need strong foundational skills in recognizing verb phrases and their functions, particularly how different tenses convey shifts in time. They must demonstrate the ability to make sophisticated inferences about character motivations, cultural context, and symbolic meaning while analyzing the author's use of literary devices such as metaphors and similes. The quiz requires students to synthesize textual evidence to support interpretations about themes of young love, the value of handcrafted beauty, and the symbolic significance of the grasshopper and bell cricket as representations of how we perceive others versus their true nature. Created by Christine Evans, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 9. This comprehensive assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a summative evaluation after students have completed a thorough study of the text, or as a formative assessment to gauge student understanding during guided reading instruction. The quiz works well for homework assignments that reinforce close reading skills, and individual questions can be extracted for warm-up activities or discussion starters. Teachers can use this assessment to identify students who need additional support with inference-making or literary analysis before moving to more complex texts. The quiz aligns with Common Core standards RL.9-10.1 for citing textual evidence to support analysis, RL.9-10.2 for determining themes and analyzing their development, RL.9-10.3 for analyzing how complex characters develop, and RL.9-10.4 for determining the meaning of words and phrases including figurative language.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Read the following line from paragraph 3 of the story.
The child with the red lantern discarded it as a tasteless object that could be bought at a store.
Which revision uses a verb phrase to show a shift in time?
The child with the red lantern, discarding it as a tasteless object that could be bought at a store.
The child with the red lantern wanted to discard it as a tasteless object that could be bought at a store.
The child with the red lantern had discarded it as a tasteless object that could be bought at a store.
The child with the red lantern discards it as a tasteless object that could be bought at a store.
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.10
CCSS.RI.8.10
CCSS.RI.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Read paragraph 12. What does the description of the boy suggest is about to be revealed?
The grasshopper will turn out to be a cricket.
The boy has a special feeling about this particular girl.
The boy is going to read his name on the kimono the girl wore.
The girl is about to show off her superior knowledge of nature.
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
CCSS.RI. 9-10.1
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RI.7.1
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Read this quote from paragraph 23.
This chance interplay of red and green—if it was chance or play—neither Fujio nor Kiyoko knew about.
By saying if it was chance, the author is most likely implying that —
the letters were cut out so they would project onto the person ahead
everything that happens in life is designed
the interplay of the children’s names was meant to happen
the children missed seeing the interplay of their names
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CCSS.RL.9-10.2
CCSS.RI. 9-10.1
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.7.2
CCSS.RL.8.1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Based on context, what is the most likely definition of aperture in paragraph 23?
An opening such as a hole
A tear in a sheet of paper
A handmade lantern
The effect of a shadow
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Read the quotation from paragraph 26:
Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket.
What type of literary device is this?
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Which two quotes from the story contain a verb phrase?
How silly of me not to have understood his actions until now!
Without going any farther, I knew that it was a group of children on an insect chase . . .
These were the twenty children and their beautiful lanterns that I now saw before me.
Lightly turning his body, the boy gracefully bent forward
Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket
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CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.2.6
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Which evidence from the story might lead you to infer that Japanese culture places much value on beautiful handmade items?
The children seemed to take great pride in the individual lanterns they created.
The lanterns the children took on their insect hunt were various colors.
No child went insect hunting without a lantern of some type
The lanterns brought out the shadows of the bushes.
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
CCSS.RI. 9-10.1
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RI.7.1
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