Question Bank for Grade 10 English

The narrator is the______.

• person telling the story

• main character in the story

• enemy of the main character in the text

• person listening to the text

What point of view uses the word 
he?

• 1st person

• 3rd person

“He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

• First Person

• Third Person

“I Sigh. My expertise isn't what he needs. Any fool can take orders. It's not complicated to yell 'four chicken burritos, one green sauce'... No, it's not my expertise in serving food that my precious parents want to preserve.”

― Marian Flandrick Bray, The Pale Mare

• First Person

• Third Person

She liked ice cream, but he liked cake. So they bought both.

• 3rd person

• 1st person

To make an INFERENCE is to

• make a guess based on your feelings

• make a conclusion based on clues in the text

Which point of view uses the pronoun "I, me, my, us, we, our".

• First Person

• Third Person

April opened the escape hatch. She was afraid to jump, but she realized that the airship was sinking. She looked at Vince, who was putting on his parachute. Vince locked eyes with her and then he realized the error in his conduct. "I'm sorry, April. That was ungentlemanly of me. Let me help you with yours." He proceeded to attach the other parachute to April's back. This made him feel a little better.

• First Person

• Third Person

When the narrator uses the pronouns, "she", "he", and "them", the story is written in...

• 1st person point of view

• 3rd person point of view

I didn't like creeping down the wrong alley. From which point of view is this sentence written?

• First Person

• Third Person