WorksheetsMystery Writing Vocab
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What do you call something that is used as proof in a crime?
a)
setting
b)
evidence
c)
plot
d)
suspect
2.
Which term means "an act committed in violation of the law"?
a)
mystery
b)
hunch
c)
victim
d)
crime
3.
Something that is secret and unknown is a ...
a)
witness
b)
suspect
c)
mystery
d)
crime
4.
What is the name for someone who investigates crimes?
a)
detective
b)
motive
c)
mystery
d)
alibi
5.
Which term means "an excuse an accused person uses to show he/she was somewhere else than at the scene of the crime"?
a)
clue
b)
alibi
c)
plot
d)
evidence
6.
What is the term for someone who is harmed or suffers some loss?
a)
victim
b)
witness
c)
detective
d)
sleuth
7.
What is it called when a detective takes a guess or has a feeling that is not based on known facts?
a)
hunch
b)
clue
c)
suspect
d)
motive
8.
What is the inner drive that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way?
a)
alibi
b)
crime
c)
plot
d)
motive
9.
Which term means "a fact or object that helps to solve mysteries"?
a)
clue
b)
sleuth
c)
witness
d)
detective
10.
What is another name for a detective?
a)
witness
b)
victim
c)
sleuth
d)
suspect
11.
Which terms means "an advance of discovery that helps solve a crime"?
a)
alibi
b)
clue
c)
setting
d)
breakthrough
12.
A person who is thought to have committed a crime is called a...
a)
victim
b)
suspect
c)
detective
d)
sleuth
13.
What are the sequence of events in a story called?
a)
breakthrough
b)
deduce
c)
setting
d)
plot
14.
This person saw or can give a first hand account of something.
a)
sleuth
b)
mystery
c)
witness
d)
detective
15.
What does it mean to infer by logical reasoning?
a)
sleuth
b)
suspect
c)
deduce
d)
hunch
16.
What part of a story describes the time and place that it takes place?
a)
setting
b)
plot
c)
mystery
d)
clue
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