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State Test Study Guide Quiz

Total questions: 58

Worksheet time: 15hrs 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the main idea?

a)

What the text is mostly about.

b)

Details that support your answer.

c)

A good guess.

d)

What the author wants you to feel.

2.

How do you know that your main idea is correct?

a)

It has several key details that prove your answer is right.

b)

It will say it in the first paragraph.

c)

It will say it in the last paragraph.

d)

It will have a word that means the same thing.

3.

When looking for the main idea, where should you NOT look for hints?

a)

At the characters names.

b)

In the title

c)

In the first and last sentences

d)

In the pictures

e)

In the headings

4.

What is the way an author organizes/builds his text to make it easier for the reader to understand?

a)

Text structure

b)

Main idea

c)

Inference

d)

Point of View

5.

Which of the following describes the description text structure?

a)

It uses details to describe a topic

b)

It goes in time order using dates.

c)

It will tell what happened and why it happened.

d)

It will tell how things are similar and how they are different.

6.

Which of the following describes the chronological text structure?

a)

It tells things in the order that they happen.

b)

It tells what happened and why it happened.

c)

It tells what the problem is and how to solve it.

d)

It gives plenty of description.

7.

Which of the following describes the Compare and Contrast text structure?

a)

It tells how things are similar and how they are different.

b)

It tells things that happen in time order.

c)

It tells why something happened and what happened.

d)

It tells the solution to a problem.

8.

Which of the following describes cause and effect text structure?

a)

It tells why something happened and what happened.

b)

It tells the time order than things happen in.

c)

It gives similarities and differences.

d)

It gives details and descriptions.

9.

Which of the following describes problem and solution text structure?

a)

It will give a problem and then the way to solve the problem.

b)

It tells what happened and why it happened.

c)

It tells similarities and differences.

d)

It gives a lot of descriptions about the topic.

10.

Point of view is ________?

a)

The character or authors perspective of the story.

b)

What the text is mostly about.

c)

The way the author builds a text to make it easier to read.

d)

A good guess made based off clues found in the text.

11.

Someone with a positive point of view...?

a)

Likes it or has a favorable opinion.

b)

Does not like it or has a poor opinion.

c)

Neither likes nor dislikes it.

12.

Someone with a negative point of view....?

a)

Does not like it or has a poor opinion.

b)

Likes it or has a favorable opinion.

c)

Neither likes or dislikes it.

13.

A neutral point of view....?

a)

The author neither likes nor dislikes it.

b)

The author likes it or has a positive opinion.

c)

The author does not like it or has a negative opinion.

14.

The narrator IS a character in the story.

a)

1st Person

b)

2nd Person

c)

3rd Person Limited

d)

3rd Person Omniscient

15.

The narrator is speaking directly to the reader.

a)

1st Person

b)

2nd Person

c)

3rd Person Limited

d)

3rd Person Omniscient

16.

The narrator is NOT a character in the story and knows the thoughts and feeling of ONE character.

a)

1st person

b)

2nd person

c)

3rd person limited

d)

3rd person omniscient

17.

Point of View that uses words like I, me, mine, we, and ours.

a)

1st

b)

2nd

c)

3rd Omniscient

d)

3rd Limited

18.

Point of View that uses words like you and your.

a)

1st

b)

2nd

c)

3rd Omniscient

d)

3rd Limited

19.

Point of View that uses words like he, she, they, and them.

a)

1st

b)

2nd

c)

3rd

20.

What does it mean to summarize a text?

a)

To retell important parts of a story in your own words.

b)

To retell important parts of a story using only text evidence.

c)

To tell the message or theme that the author wanted the reader to learn.

d)

To tell what the problem of a story is and the best way to solve it.

21.

A summary must be in your own words

a)

True

b)

False

22.

A FICTIONAL summary should include all of the following EXCEPT:

a)

Characters

b)

Setting

c)

Main Idea

d)

Problem

e)

Solution

23.

A NONFICTION summary should include all of the following EXCEPT...

a)

Main idea

b)

Key details

c)

Characters

24.

Recounting a story and summarizing a story are the same thing.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

Context clues help you...

a)

Find the meaning of unknown words

b)

Help you determine the authors point of view

c)

determine the main idea

d)

when you are making a summary

26.

When you are trying to find out if a context clue word is correct, you should NOT put it in the sentence.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

This means to make a good guess based on clues in the text.

a)

Infer

b)

Theme

c)

Structure

d)

Point of view

28.

What you already know is _________

a)

Background knowledge

b)

Key details

c)

Main idea

d)

Infer

29.

Background knowledge can help you make an inference when reading a text.

a)

True

b)

False

30.

Making an inference is the same as...

a)

Drawing a conclusion

b)

Solving a problem

c)

Using figurative language

d)

Text evidence

31.

This is the moral, message, or lesson of the story.

a)

Theme

b)

Point of View

c)

Main idea

d)

Summary

32.

Theme can also be referred to as central idea.

a)

True

b)

False

33.

The theme should include the characters' names and the setting.

a)

True

b)

False

34.

Which of the following questions would NOT help you find the theme or central idea?

a)

What lesson did the character learn?

b)

How did the characters grow or change?

c)

Where and when does the story take place?

d)

What could I learn from this that could help me in my life?

35.

All of the following are examples of theme EXCEPT:

a)

Slow and steady wins the race

b)

Recycling reduces waste.

c)

Money is not everything.

d)

Honestly is the best policy.

36.

When the author does not literally mean the words they use:

a)

Theme

b)

Central Message

c)

Inference

d)

Figurative Language

37.

What is a simile?

a)

When you compare two unlike things.

b)

When you compare two things using LIKE or AS

c)

A big exaggeration

d)

Words that have a special meaning.

38.

What is a metaphor?

a)

Comparing two unlike things

b)

Comparing two things using like or as.

c)

Giving human characteristics to a non human thing.

d)

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words

39.

What is personification?

a)

Words that describe a sound

b)

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words

c)

A big exaggeration

d)

Giving human characteristics to a non human thing.

40.

What is alliteration?

a)

Words that have a special meaning

b)

The repeated consonant sound at the beginning of words

c)

Words that describe a sound.

d)

A big exaggeration

41.

What is Onomatopoeia?

a)

Words that have a special meaning

b)

Words that describe a sound

c)

Words that start with the same consonant sound

d)

Words that give human characteristics to a non human thing.

42.

What is an idiom?

a)

Words that describe a sound.

b)

Giving human characteristics to a non human thing.

c)

A big exaggeration

d)

A group of words with a special meaning.

43.

What is a hyperbole?

a)

Words that describe a sound

b)

Words that have a special meaning

c)

A big exaggeration

d)

comparing two unlike things.

44.

Firsthand means...

a)

The person or artifact was really there

b)

The person or artifact was told about by someone who was not really there.

45.

Secondhand means...

a)

The person or artifact was really there.

b)

The person or artifact was told about by someone who was not really there.

46.

Compare means

a)

To tell what is different

b)

To tell what is the same

47.

Contrast means...

a)

To tell what is different

b)

To tell what is the same

48.

Analyze means

a)

To guess

b)

To infer

c)

To look at closely, or study

49.

Determine means....

a)

Guess

b)

Study

c)

Look closely

d)

Decide

50.

Predict means...

a)

Guess

b)

Read

c)

Solution

d)

Problem

51.

The plot is...

a)

The problem in the story

b)

The solution in the story

c)

The characters in the story

d)

The important events in the story

52.

The climax is of a story is...

a)

All the important events

b)

The big, action part of the story

c)

The solution

d)

The characters and the setting

53.

A drama is...

a)

A song

b)

A story

c)

A poem

d)

A play

54.

Clarify means...

a)

To make clear or explain

b)

to guess

c)

to read

d)

to study

55.

Dialogue is...

a)

The main idea

b)

A clue in the story

c)

What is being said

d)

What is being done

56.

Contribute means...

a)

To take away from

b)

To add to

c)

To read closely

57.

Literal means...

a)

You say exactly what you mean

b)

You do not mean exactly what you say

58.

Figurative means...

a)

You say exactly what you mean

b)

You do not say exactly what you mean