Central Idea Quiz

How can you identify the central idea of a passage?

• By identifying the main points and supporting details

• By asking someone else to identify it for you

• By guessing without reading the passage

• By ignoring the main points and focusing only on the minor details

What are supporting details?

• Specific pieces of information that help to explain, describe, or prove a main idea

• Random facts that are not related to the main idea

• Opinions that are not backed up by evidence

• Unrelated information that confuses the main idea

What is central idea?

• the least important point in a story

• the life lesson or moral of a story

• the most important point the author makes about a topic

• The center of a story

Why are supporting details important in understanding the central idea?

• Supporting details provide evidence and context for the central idea.

• Supporting details are only important in fiction, not non-fiction

• Supporting details confuse the understanding of the central idea

• Supporting details are irrelevant to the central idea

Which of the following is NOT a way to determine the central idea of a passage?

• Identifying the theme of each paragraph

• Ignoring the supporting details

• Analyzing the author's tone and mood

• All of the above

How do you determine the central idea?

• Locate the mood and tone to determine the central idea

• Locate the topic and what the author is mostly saying about the topic

• find the explicit details in the text

• Locate the topic of the text