Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Test Review Game

A setting is the time and place in which a story takes place. Describe the setting of London in the late nineteenth century, and explain how that setting influences the plot of Black Beauty. It must be written as one complete sentence with text evidence (Author, #).

Characterization refers to the ways a writer shows what a character is like. Identify one of Black Beauty’s qualities and explain how his actions reveal this quality. It must be written as one complete sentence with text evidence (Author, #).

When a story is told from the first-person point of view, the narrator can share his or her feelings and opinions about the story’s events and characters. How does knowing Black Beauty’s thoughts and feelings reinforce the theme of the power of kindness and compassion? It must be written as one complete sentence with text evidence (Author, #).

Sensory details appeal to the reader’s five senses. Think about the details the war horse Captain uses to describe his experiences in battle. How do these details help readers understand his experience? It must be written as one complete sentence with text evidence (Author, #).

Foreshadowing is a hint about future events. What does the hunt in Chapter 2 foreshadow about the dangers Black Beauty might encounter? It must be written as one complete sentence with text evidence (Author, #).

Write a 5 sentence essay that explains how the following quotation from Black Beauty illustrates the novel’s theme of standing up against injustice. Include other text evidence from the novel to support your answer.

"After this we continued our journey, and as they got out of the cab our friend was saying, “My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”

Black Beauty is mostly content at Birtwick Park, but he misses his —

• mother

• liberty

• old master

• good food

According to Ginger and the other horses, horses are too often mistreated for reasons of —

• fashion

• cost savings

• justice

• tradition

Black Beauty has to leave Birtwick Park because —

• he throws a rider

• the estate is sold

• his master gets a new horse

• he is badly injured in a fire

Black Beauty’s earliest memories are of —

• a busy London street

• a roomy stable

• a pleasant meadow

• wearing a bearing rein