Setting Practice

Setting tells you where and when a story occurs. Setting can include time and place. Read the following passage from Alice in Wonderland: Once in the wood, she was anxious to get back to her right size again, and then to get into that lovely garden. But how? Peeping over a mushroom, she beheld a large blue caterpillar... Which detail provides a clue where this passage takes place?

• “Once in the wood…"

• “A large blue caterpillar..”

• “...get back to her right size again...”

• “...with its arms folded”

Setting is...

• The main character's favorite spot

• Where and when a story takes place

• Only where the story takes place

• Only when the story takes place

True or false: understanding setting is important because it helps us interpret the characters location and time period

• True

• False

Why is practicing with sample questions beneficial for improving your multiple-choice question answering skills?

• It makes the questions easier

• It helps you become familiar with common question formats and traps

• It is not beneficial

• It allows you to memorize answers

Answer explanation

Practicing with sample questions helps you become familiar with common question formats and traps, improving your multiple-choice question answering skills.

How do you practice ....?

• speaking

• listening

• writing

• reading

How often do you practice ...?

• reading

• singing

• listening

• speaking

A setting that is essential to the plot of the story is...

• Backdrop

• Integral

A setting that is not essential to the plot of the story

• Backdrop

• Integral

What is the setting of the passage below?
One summer day, Randolph the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of the morning seeped slowly through his curtains. Randolph blinked against the day, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful conclusion. 

• winter in a train station of a busy city

• a hospital in the future

• a summer morning in a castle

• a grocery store in the 1980's

In the passage below, what can you infer about Randolph using clues from the setting?
One summer day, Randolph the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of the morning seeped slowly through his curtains. Randolph blinked against the day, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful conclusion.

• Randolph is a mean person.

• Randolph is a prince or king. 

• Randolph has an older sister. 

• The setting doesn't give me any clues about Randolph.