ELA Quiz Review Unit 1

Pronouns (pro meaning “for”) take the place of

• nouns
• adjectives
• verbs
• adverbs

______________ pronouns take the place of a subject of a sentence.

• subjective
• objective
• reflexive
• possessive

______________ pronouns take the place of a object of a sentence.

• subjective
• objective
• reflexive
• possessive

What is the subject of the sentence? Mr. McMillan gave cookies to the kids.

• Mr. McMillan
• gave
• cookies
• kids

What subjective pronoun would you use to replace the underlined word? (Mr. McMillan = male.) Mr. McMillan gave cookies to the kids.

• he
• she
• it
• they

Identify the pronoun in the sentence. We went to the park to play soccer.

• we
• went
• to
• play

Is the following underlined pronoun subjective or objective? The teacher handed me the paper.

• subjective
• objective

What is the definition of "personal narrative"?

• a conversation between or among characters
• how the speaker is saying the dialogue
• a true story in which a write relates a meaningful experience from their own life
• a person, place, thing, idea, or event

Which of the following best describes the central idea in a text?

• the conclusion that readers come to after an analysis
• the details in the text that describe the time and setting
• the original event that inspired the author to write the text
• the main message that the author wants readers to understand

Which sentence contains evidence to support Myers’ central idea that boys are supposed to behave in certain ways?

• “There wasn’t any ice to skate on in Harlem, so I gave up hockey.”
• “Sometimes on rainy days I would sit in the library and read.”
• “When the girls had finished their dancing, they went through some stretching exercises.”
• “I liked dancing, too, but I had to pretend that I didn’t like it.”