Narrative Perspective Quiz

What is your name?

In 3rd person omniscient, what does omniscient mean?

• dark and mysterious
• all knowing
• a kind of genre

What narrative perspective uses the words you and yours and is mostly used for explaining things or giving directions?

• 1st person
• 2nd person
• 3rd person

Third person limited focuses on one character. The narrator tells what happens to all characters, but only knows one character's thoughts and feelings.

• true
• false

What narrative perspective uses these pronoun signal words: he, she, her, they, them and character's names.

• first person
• second person
• third person

"Ice cream! Ice cream!" I heard the street vendor shouting as he pushed his cart down the block. Ice cream sounded really tasty on a day like this. I plunged my hands into my pockets and examined the contents: one pair of house keys, a pack of gum that was almost empty and a few coins. I pulled the coins from my pockets and counted them. It didn't take long. 46 cents. I saw a line of children from the neighborhood in front of the street vendor. Each walked away happier than the former. My mouth tasted like hot ashes. What is the narrative perspective?

• 1st person
• 2nd person
• 3rd person

What kind of 3rd person narration does not reveal any character's thoughts or feelings?

• omniscient
• objective
• limited

We never really cared who won or lost. We didn't even keep track of points usually. We just went out there and played our hearts out. There were no coaches, no umpires and no fans. Just a handful of boys playing a game that we loved. So much happened on that field every time we played. Kingdoms were won and lost in a swing. Titles were made and broken in a pitch. But things were about to change. What is the narrative perspective?

• 1st person
• 2nd person
• 3rd person

Mary looked at the menu with a puzzled expression. The letters were blurring together. She couldn't make out the words. Her server approached the table and introduced himself, "I'm Marvin and I'll be your server," he said. Mary could not understand a word that Marvin had said. She nodded her head politely as he talked, but she had already made up her mind to point at pictures on the menu to communicate her order. What is the narrative perspective?

• 3rd person objective
• 3rd person limited
• 3rd person omniscient

Your tomato plants may be resilient, but there are a couple of things that you can do to help them grow rich and lush. First, you should water the tomato plant in the morning. Tomatoes grown best when they can drink water all day in the sun. Second, you should give them the correct amount of water. Follow the chart on page 67 to determine how much water you should give your tomato plants. What is the narrative perspective?

• 1st person
• 2nd person
• 3rd person