Reading Quiz: Two Leaves

Which best describes the MOOD of this story?

• Cheerful

• Bleak

Which figurative language technique is used to bring the main characters of this story to life?

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

How have things changed for the leaves?

• It is darker, colder, and they are more miserable.

• It is brighter and they are enjoying the warmth.

From which perspective is this story narrated?

• First-person

• Third-person objective

• Third-person omniscient

Which best characterizes the two leaves?

• They still think that they have many warm days ahead of them so they are happy.

• They know that they will fall soon and they are sad and concerned about it.

• They think that it will be fun to get blown off the tree and they can't wait to go for the ride.

• They are lonely at the top of the tree and excited to join their friends on the forest floor.

Why does the first leaf try to convince the second leaf that he hasn't changed much?

• He is lying to try to make them both feel better.

• He is trying to trick him from his spot.

• He honestly can't tell that the second leaf has changed much.

• He is trying to get him to share his acorn with him.

Which figurative language technique is used in the following? "Might be a few yellow stripes here and there, but not so's you'd notice,"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Understatement

Which statement best expresses the THEME of this story?

• All good things must come to an end.

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

• Optimistic

• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

If the story were to continue, it is reasonable to PREDICT that which would MOST LIKELY occur next?

• The last leaf would hang on all winter and survive till the spring.

• The last leaf would make a new leaf friend on the tree that he never noticed.

• The last leaf would fall off also and in short time.

• The last leaf would suddenly regain his strength and color.