Drummer Boy- Quiz Review

Read the sentence from paragraph 46. "Joby was his right hand and his left." Which statement best expresses the meaning of this idiom?

• Joby will play loudly enough for soldiers on both sides to hear.

• Joby has taken on another drummer’s job for the General.

• Joby knows how to play the drums with both hands.

• Joby is the General’s most important assistant.

Identify the figurative language: She was as bright as the sun.​ ​ ​ ​ ​

• SMILE

• SIMILE

• METAPHOR

• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Simile or Metaphor?

My father is a bear in the morning.

• simile

• metaphor

Which sentence best expresses a theme of the story?

• It is possible to overcome fear by focusing on one’s duty.

• It is improper for soldiers to show emotion before going into battle.

• The best military leaders can win battles without highly trained soldiers.

• The role of a drummer boy in battle is more important than a general’s leadership.

Read the sentence from paragraph 6. What does helter-skelter mean as used in this sentence?

• Distant

• Frightened

• In a haphazard manner

• Under military control

Read this sentence from paragraph 48: “. . . Do you know now you’re general of the army when the General’s left behind?” The General most likely asks this question to —

• suggest that he will leave the battlefield

• express doubt about Joby’s willingness to lead

• give Joby hope about the outcome of the battle

• emphasize the importance of the drummer boy’s role

Which sentence best illustrates how the setting contributes to the General’s conflict in the story?

• “Both sides figuring the other side will just give up, and soon, and the war done in weeks, and us all home.” (paragraph 34)

• “But here we are, taken with spring fever and thinking it blood lust, taking our sulphur with cannons instead of with molasses as it should be, going to be a hero, going to live forever.” (paragraph 37)

• “Well, when you got a bunch of wild horses on a loose rein somewhere, somehow you got to bring order, rein them in.” (paragraph 40)

• But if he beat a sure, steady, ever faster rhythm, then, then their knees would come up in a long line down over that hill, one knee after the other, like a wave on the ocean shore! (paragraph 46)

Part B: Which quote from the selection best supports the answer to Part A?

• In silence he listened to his own heart ruffle away, away, at last gone from his ears and back in his chest again. (paragraph 1)

• For with the careless bones of the young men harvested by night and bindled around campfires were the similarly strewn steel bones of their rifles, with bayonets fixed like eternal lightning lost in the orchard grass. (paragraph 10)

Which kind of figurative language is used in the sentence below?

Olivia, your room is a pig sty.

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Tags

4L5

The lesson or moral of the story is called the what?

• conflict

• main character

• topic

• theme