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Point of View

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 43mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The narrator is the _____.
a)
person telling the story
b)
main character in the story 
c)
enemy of the main character in the story
d)
person listening to the story 
2.
Which sentence is written in second person point of view?
a)
Erin did not want to go to the grocery store. 
b)
You did not want to go to the grocery store.
c)
Mariah did not want to go to the grocery store. 
d)
I did not want to go to the grocery store.
3.
I don't like creeping down the dark alley. 
From which point of view is this sentence written?
a)
first person 
b)
second person 
c)
third person 
4.
We laughed so hard that milk came out of our noses. 
From which point of view is the sentence written?
a)
third person, omniscient
b)
third person, objective
c)
first person
5.
Which sentence is written in third person point of view?
a)
I brought my mother breakfast this morning. 
b)
You always wear your seat belt. 
c)
We didn't mean to hurt Jorge's feelings!
d)
Cynthia and her brother walked home from school this afternoon. 
6.
“What would you do if you could fly?" Mrs. V asks as she glances from the bird to me.
"Is that on the quiz?" I ask, grinning as I type.
"I think we've studied just about everything else." Mrs. V chuckles.
"I'd be scared to let go," I type.
"Afraid you'd fall?" she asks.
"No. Afraid it would feel so good, I'd just fly away.”
― Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind
a)
First Person
b)
Second Person
c)
Third Person Limited
d)
Third Person Omniscient
7.
"Leslie sat in front of Paul. She had two long, brown pigtails that reached all the way down to her waist. Paul saw those pigtails, and a terrible urge came over him. He wanted to pull a pigtail. He wanted to wrap his fist around it, feel the hair between his fingers, and just yank." Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Louis Sachar
a)
First Person
b)
Second Person
c)
Third Person Limited
d)
Third Person Omniscient
8.
“Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh. ”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Peace, Locomotion
a)
First Person
b)
Second Person
c)
Third Person Limited
d)
Third Person Omniscient
9.
“Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with. Life isn’t something that happens to you. It’s something you make yourself, all the time.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger
a)
First Person
b)
Second Person
c)
Third Person Limited
d)
Third Person Omniscient
10.

I can't wait till school is out for the summer!

a)

1st person

b)

3rd person

11.

He never does his homework so he misses recess a lot.

a)

1st person

b)

3rd person

12.

They hurried and packed up their food to get out of the rain.

a)

1st person

b)

3rd person

13.

She always brushes her teeth before she goes to bed.

a)

1st person

b)

3rd person

14.

Identify the narrator's point of view.


The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum


The Scarecrow found a tree full of nuts and filled Dorothy's basket with them, so that she would not be hungry for a long time. She thought this was very kind and thoughtful of the Scarecrow, but she laughed heartily at the awkward way in which the poor creature picked up the nuts. His padded hands were so clumsy that he dropped almost as many as he put in the basket. But the Scarecrow did not mind how long it took him to fill the basket, for it enabled him to keep away from the fire, as he felt that a spark might get into his straw and burn him up.

a)

first person

b)

second person

c)

third person

d)

third person limited

e)

third person omniscient

15.

Identify the narrator's point of view.


To Make French Toast: First, take out a skillet to cook and turn the stove on low. Second, you will melt the butter in the pan and stir it with a spatula. Third, beat the eggs. Fourth, lay the bread, white or wheat, on both sides in the eggs. Fifth, sit the bread on top of butter for 30 seconds and then turn over. Now you have a slice of French toast, repeat.

a)

First person

b)

Second person

c)

Third person objective

d)

Third person limited

e)

Third person omniscient

16.

When the narrator tells a "you" or "your" story...

a)

First person

b)

Second person

c)

Third person objective

d)

Third person limited

e)

Third person omniscient

17.

When the narrator tells the story of "he" or "she" and does not reveal any characters' thoughts.

a)

First person

b)

Second person

c)

Third person objecive

d)

Third person limited

e)

Third person omniscient

18.

When the narrator tells the story of "he" or "she" and reveals two or more characters' thoughts or feelings.

a)

First person

b)

Second person

c)

Third person objective

d)

Third person limited

e)

Third person omniscient

19.

When the story is narrated from the perspective of "I"

a)

First person

b)

Second person

c)

Third person objective

d)

Third person limited

e)

Third person omniscient

20.

In which POV do you see "you and your" used to convey the story?

a)

1st person

b)

2nd person

c)

3rd person limited

d)

3rd person objective

21.

In which POV do you see" I, me, and my" used to convey the story?

a)

1st person

b)

2nd person

c)

3rd person objective

d)

3rd person omniscient

22.

In which POV do you see "he, she, and them" used to convey the story?

a)

1st person

b)

2nd person

c)

3rd person objective

d)

3rd person omniscient

23.

In which point of view is the author a character in the story?

a)

1st person POV

b)

2nd person POV

c)

3rd person limited

d)

3rd person omniscient

24.
Once upon a time—of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve—old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them. The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already-it had not been light all day-and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.
a)
1st Person
b)
3rd Person
25.
the author is
a)
the speaker
b)
the person who wrote the story
c)
the person who told the story
d)
a flat character
26.
the narrator is the
a)
person telling the story
b)
the simile
c)
person who wrote the story
d)
a flat character
27.
Third person point of view is when the narrator is talking about
a)
someone else
b)
themselves
c)
the speaker
d)
nobody
28.
What point of view uses the word 
he?
a)
1st person POV
b)
2nd person POV
c)
3rd person POV
29.
How can you know that something is written in first person point of view?
a)
pronouns like I, my and him are used
b)
the author is addressing the reader
c)
the narrator is not in the story
d)
pronouns like I, my and we are used
30.
What does POV stand for?
a)
Point of View
b)
Please Review
c)
Pass over Vivian
d)
Point of Refernce
31.
We usually see second person POV when...
a)
giving instructions
b)
reading a short story
c)
in an expository essay
d)
in literary writing 
32.
What is the purpose of point of view?
a)
to let the characters know what the reader can see or hear
b)
to express the character's thoughts and allow the reader to see and hear the story in different ways
c)
to let the reader know what the author knows about a story
d)
to express the author's thoughts and feelings and allow the reader to know what the character's know
33.
Third person omniscient point of view is when the narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of ______ characters.
a)
all
b)
one
c)
no
d)
more than three
34.
Which point of view do you see these signal words?
he, she, they, them, (character's names)
a)
First person
b)
Second person
c)
Third person
35.

Sarah and Jake were friends who liked to play baseball together. Sarah asked Jake to play baseball after school and Jake told her no. Sarah's feelings were very hurt by Jake.

a)

First person

b)

second person

c)

third person limited

36.
Identify the point of view of the excerpt from Seventh Grade: As Teresa walked down the hall, Victor walked the other way, looking back, admiring how gracefully she walked, one foot in front of the other. So much for being in the same class, he thought.
a)
Second Person
b)
Third person 
c)
First Person secret
d)
First Person
37.

He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had the pinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in a short space of time.

(J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix )

a)

First Person

b)

Third Person Limited

c)

Third Person Omniscient

d)

Second Person

38.
Which sentence is written is second person point of view?
a)
Erin did not want to go to the grocery store.
b)
You did not want to go to the grocery store.
c)
Mariah did not want to go to the grocery store.
d)
I did not want to go to the grocery store.
39.
A _________ narrator can see and describe every character's thought.
a)
first person
b)
second person
c)
third person, limited 
d)
third person, omniscient
40.

The group of students gathered around the table to work together.

a)

First Person

b)

Second Person

c)

Third Person

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