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WorksheetsUnit 1 Midterm Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
How would you describe the theme of a text?
the message or moral of the story
what the story is mostly about
the way an author describes characters
the beginning of a story
Which of the following could be a possible theme of a story?
A boy gets a new pet dog for his birthday.
Hard work and a positive attitude lead to success.
Karen is a mean, petty character in the story.
The girl loses her arm in a shark attack.
What is one way that characters can affect the plot of the story?
They don't affect the plot at all.
They can add suspense to the story.
They can tell where the story is happening.
They make the plot boring.
When a student makes a guess about something in a text based on clues or hints in the text, it is called...
an explicit statement
an inference
an exposition
a resolution
Which of the following is an example of an inference?
The text says that Mackenzie made a friend, so I know that she made a friend in the story.
The text says that Jennifer is friendly, so I know that she is friendly to others.
The text says that Mackenzie assumed that the new girl was snobby when she is actually friendly, so I can guess that Mackenzie makes quick assumptions about others.
The text says that Jennifer invites the new girl to lunch, so I know that Jennifer is the one who invited her.
Which point of view has a narrator from outside the story and shows the thoughts and feelings of only ONE character?
First Person
Second Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
Which group of words would help the reader to identify Third Person Point of View?
Alisha, mom, dad
She, They, Them
I, Me, My
Burn, Fire, House
Which point of view has a narrator that is a character in the story?
First Person
Second Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
Which point of view is rarely used in telling stories?
First Person
Second Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
What is dialogue in a story?
Conversation between characters
The thoughts of one character
The events that lead to the climax of the story
The main event in a story
What is the MOST LIKELY role that dialogue plays in a story?
It describes characters' physical appearance.
It helps reveal characters' personalities.
It describes the events that lead to the resolution.
Dialogue is not important in a story.
Major events in a story (rising action and falling action) help to advance or move the plot along. Which of the following is MOST LIKELY a major event that advances the plot?
Alisha feels warmth from the sun as she plays outside.
Alisha smells the wood of the new house that is being built.
Alisha came to a major realization that she must tell her parents.
Alisha disagrees with something her brother said.
Which answer choice contains a compound verb ?
She did cartwheels and backflips.
When the buzzer sounded for first lunch, we leaped for the doors.
Bleached blond and beautiful Mallory Stillwell, captain of the cheerleaders, was sitting with Stargirl.
She continued to strum her ukulele and sing "Happy Birthday" to people.
Determine the complete subject of the following sentence:
Alan Ferko's face turned red as Bo Peep's pigtail ribbons.
Alan Ferko's face
Bo Peep's pigtail
turned red
Alan Ferko
Determine which answer choice accurately describes the underlined portion of the sentence:
Everyone cheered: the spectators, the cheerleaders, the band, the players, the officials, the parents running the hot dog stand, the policeman, me.
The complete subject
The simple subject
The complete predicate
The simple predicate (verb)
The part of speech that shows the action in the sentence (or shows what the subject is doing) is called...
an action verb
a subject
an adverb
a pronoun
The part of speech that links the subject to something that identifies or describes it is called...
an action verb
a linking verb
a subject
a pronoun
The part of speech that is usually at the beginning of the sentence and identifies who or what the sentence is about...
the verb
the subject
the object
the predicate
Which answer choice contains NO ERRORS in capitalization?
When he wasn't digging up old bones, Archie Brubaker was teaching at universities in the East.
Every saturday morning his house became a school.
The bones were from digs he had done throughout the american west.
he was not certified to teach in Arizona, but that did not stop him.
How does character viewpoint/perspective affect a story?
It gives the reader insights that only can be shown through that character.
It gives the reader the real story.
It does not affect the story at all.
It reveals why the author wrote the story.
