21ST CENTURY LIT QUIZ

This the part of the story where complication begins to show itself on the

characters, setting, and events in the story.

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• plot

The result of the climax, and it is the part when things start falling into place for the

characters.

• denouement

• falling action

• conflict

• exposition

What is the locale or period in which the action of a story takes place?

• conflict

• setting

• theme

• plot

Which of the following tells about the sequence of series of events in a story?

• plot

• conflict

• setting

• theme

Theme is the underlying message that the writer would like to get across. What is

the theme of Things Fall Apart?

• struggle between change and tradition

• struggle between Okonkwo and the whites

• struggle of Okonkwo

• struggle of the colonizers

Which of the following is the exposition of the The Clever Young Man and the

Monster?

• The woman gave birth to a boy named Masala Kulangwa.

• From that day on, the young man started looking for the monster.

• When he grew up he asked: “Mother, why are there only the two of us?

• The monster or ogre Shing’weng’we swallowed all the people in the world.

The event with the greatest tension in the story.

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• plot

Where the story reaches its final conclusion and the writer starts to get ready to

tell the ending by way of explaining a finality to make the story complete.

• exposition

• climax

• falling action

• denouement

A struggle between two opposing forces

• plot

• conflict

• setting

• theme

What is the mood of Things Fall Apart?

• somber and tragic

• cheerful and reflective

• gloomy and melancholy

• romantic and whimsical