WorksheetsSetting Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 18mins
Which of the following choices is evidence that the setting is a library?
Read the following passage from Alice in Wonderland:
Once in the wood, she was anxious to get back to her right size again, and then to get into that lovely garden. But how? Peeping over a mushroom, she beheld a large blue caterpillar sitting on the top with its arms folded...
Which detail from the text provides a clue to the place where this passage takes place?
Read the following passage:
As Maribelle hurried down the street, the wind swept the snow along the sidewalk and hid her footsteps, so that it looked as if no one had passed. Above her, the cold, silent skyscrapers of the city loomed. The whole block was eerily silent in the snowstorm, and she pulled her coat tightly around her. Maribelle had only moved here a few months before. She came because she wanted to be a singer. But right now, she was frightened.
Which detail from the passage indicate the setting?
Which option describes a plot that can only take place in a specific setting?
Read the following passage:
Gilberto had been excited to go to the beach but when he got there and saw how crowded it was, he became annoyed. The sun twinkled in the sky, a warm yellow globe. The sound of the ocean drummed in his ears and the sand itched his ankles and feet. Beside him, his sister slurped loudly on an ice cream cone. “Could you not?” Gilberto asked.
Which detail about the setting tells us that Gilberto is annoyed?
Which questions about a story will the setting answer?
What is the author’s attitude toward the characters?
Where and when does the story take place?
Who are the people the story is about?
Why and when did the author write the story?
"Then we check out that we on Fifth Avenue and everybody dressed up in stockings. One lady in a fur coat, hot as it is. White folks crazy.
'This is the place, ' Miss Moore say, presenting it to us in the voice she uses at the museum. 'Let’s look in the windows before we go in.'
What inference can you make about the setting based on this passage?
The sweltering, hot setting of Fifth Avenue and the toy store represents a divide between the rich and the poor.
The quiet setting of the museum allows Miss. Moore to teach the children about history.
The setting of Harlem allows the author to show the importance of dialect and language, despite the children's curses.
The setting of the cab allows readers to envision children attempting to hop out of a cab without paying.
Which excerpt from "The Chrysanthemums" foreshadows Elisa's feelings of being trapped?
On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot.
The thick willow scrub along the river flamed with sharp and positive yellow leaves.
The country road ran along the dense bank of willows and cotton-woods that bordered the river.
She looked toward the river road where the willow-line was still yellow with frosted leaves so that under the high grey fog they seemed a thin band of sunshine.
Setting is an essential part of the story's tone (how characters within the story feel about things in the story).
True
False
Choose any that apply: How does an author create a setting?
Refer to specific time and place
Provide clues about place and time using details that correspond to historical eras/events
Describe weather and surroundings
Weave details into descriptions of action
In the passage below, what can you infer about Randolph using clues from the setting?
One summer day, Randolph the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of the morning seeped slowly through his curtains. Randolph blinked against the day, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful conclusion.
Randolph is a mean person.
Randolph is a prince or king.
Randolph has an older sister.
The setting doesn't give me any clues about Randolph.
If the passage below were set in a snowy park where children were playing, what could you infer?
Lena laughed loudly. "I can't believe you did that!" she said, smiling.
Lena might have been gently hit by a snowball.
Lena might be lost.
Lena might be playing a board game or card game.
Lena might be talking to herself.
Which description of a setting would best create a mood of loneliness for a story?
"The sun was bright, and the breeze was warm in the park. In the distance, there was the pleasant noise of children laughing."
"The restaurant was packed. The waitress balanced three dishes on her arm and moved carefully around the large, round tables. Everyone's plates were full."
"At the amusement park, the ticket counter hadn't opened yet. It was still too early. But the warm smell of hot dogs and pretzels was already filling the air with the promise of fun."
"The sky was gray that cool November afternoon in the empty playground. The swings were rusted. The wood was rotted. There was silence except for the wind blowing through the dead leaves."
What can you infer about the setting based on the passage below?
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmers and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cooking stove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar - except a small hole, dug in the ground, called a cyclone, cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. It was reached by a trap-door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.
The story is sest in a place where the weather is always mild and pleasant.
The story is set near a river that sometimes floods.
The story is set on a farm where only very rich people can afford to live.
The story is set on a farm where there are sometimes cyclones.
Which of the following might describe the setting of a story?
a frog and a witch
happy and loving
a high school in 1956
love is stronger than fear
