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Let's check your library skills!

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A book written by someone about another person's life is called a______?

a)

Autobiography

b)

Biography

c)

Novel

d)

Essay

2.

Which type of reference source is organized in books called volumes?

a)

Dictionary

b)

Atlas

c)

Encyclopedia

d)

Thesaurus

3.

In which type of reference source should I look for maps?

a)

Dictionary

b)

Atlas

c)

Encyclopedia

d)

Thesaurus

4.

What is an OPAC?

a)

An online catalogue of books in the library

b)

A photocopying machine

c)

A brand of laptop

5.

If you wanted to find information about Duterte and someone handed you a book on Philippine Government, how would you find the parts that talked about Duterte specifically?

a)

You would flick through the pages hoping to spot the word 'Duterte'

b)

You would say 'Find Duterte' and the right pages would open for you

c)

You would look in the index at the back of the book and it would tell you the page numbers to look at

d)

You would look in the contents at the front of the book to see if there was a chapter on Duterte

6.

I want to put more interesting words into my story. I should use a _____?

a)

Thesaurus

b)

Dictionary

c)

Encyclopedia

d)

Atlas

7.

To find the meaning of a word, I should look in a ___?

a)

Thesaurus

b)

Dictionary

c)

Encyclopedia

d)

Atlas

8.

To find lots of information about a topic, I can look in ____?

a)

Thesaurus

b)

Dictionary

c)

Encyclopedia

d)

Atlas

9.

Who invented the Dewey Decimal System?

a)

Dewey Duck

b)

Paige Turner

c)

Howard Turner

d)

Melville Dewey

10.

How many categories are in the Dewey Decimal System?

a)

5

b)

10

c)

15

d)

20

11.

Books in the fiction section of the library are arranged in order by __________________?

a)

The first 3 letters of the author's last name

b)

The author's first name

c)

The author's last name

d)

The year of publication

12.

Where is the call number located?

a)

On the title page

b)

On the book cover

c)

On the index

d)

On the spine of the book

13.

The name of a book is____?

a)

The Author

b)

The Illustrator

c)

The Title

d)

The Topic

14.

The person who writes the words of a book is____?

a)

The publisher

b)

The author

c)

The copywriter

d)

The teacher

15.

What does the Table of Contents contain?

a)

The chapter titles

b)

The name of the book

c)

What the book is all about

d)

Why should I read the book

16.

The Table of Contents is placed at the _____?

a)

At the end of a book

b)

At the beginning of a book

c)

Not in the book

d)

It can be anywhere

17.

The index gives the_____?

a)

Names of characters

b)

Topics and page number in a book

c)

Chapter titles in a book

d)

Illustrations