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Q4 Week 3 Worksheet

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of question is being exemplified?

Chandler asked Joey if he wants to eat pepperoni pizza, “Sure, why not?” Joey answered.

a)

Informative Question

b)

Rhetorical Question

2.

What type of question is being exemplified?

Monica approached the man and said, “Hello. Do you know where I can find any chair?”

a)

Informative Question

b)

Rhetorical Question

3.

What type of question is being exemplified?

“Do mice love cheese?” Ross answered when Rachel asked him if he likes dinosaurs.

a)

Informative Question

b)

Rhetorical Question

4.

What type of question is being exemplified?

“How many people are eating dinner?”, my Dad asked the receptionist.

a)

Informative Question

b)

Rhetorical Question

5.

What type of question is being exemplified?

The four friends heard Rachel say, “I already explained this to you. How can I be more clear?”, while she and Ross was arguing.

a)

Informative Question

b)

Rhetorical Question

6.

What type of question is being exemplified?

“What’s your best friend’s name?” I asked Joey.

a)

Informative Question

b)

Rhetorical Question

7.

What type of question is being exemplified?

“When did I ever lie to you?” said Phoebe to Rachel whom she was trying to convince that the furniture shop sells at a really low price.

a)

Informative Question

b)

Rhetorical Question

8.

What type of question is being exemplified?

Ross asked if Rachel could share the pie with the others, “Sure, would you like some too?”, Rachel replied.

a)

Informative Question

b)

Rhetorical Question

9.

What type of question is being exemplified?

“Can I have the earring that you borrowed from me yesterday?” Phoebe asked Rachel.

a)

Informative Question

b)

Rhetorical Question

10.

What type of question is being exemplified?

“Can it be more obvious?”, Chandler said when Joey asked if he and Monica were dating.

a)

Informative Question

b)

Rhetorical Question

11.

Which of the following statements is the best rhetorical question definition?

a)

A figure of speech for which no answer is necessary.

b)

A falsehood meant to confuse the reader or listener.

c)

A question for which there are numerous answers.

12.

What is the function of the following rhetorical question from Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”?


Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

a)

Shakespeare wasn’t sure if a summer’s day was an appropriate comparison, and wanted validation that it would be a good metaphor.

b)

This first line of the sonnet proposes a possible metaphor for the author’s beloved, and the rest of the sonnet carries out the implications of this possibility.

c)

The lover described in the poem is so clearly the opposite of a summer day that the comparison is laughable.

13.

Which of the questions in this dialogue from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is a rhetorical question?


What did they draw?’ said Alice, quite forgetting her promise.

`Treacle,’ said the Dormouse, without considering at all this time.

Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began very cautiously: `But I don’t understand. Where did they draw the treacle from?’

`You can draw water out of a water-well,’ said the Hatter; `so I should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well—what are you, stupid?’

a)

“What did they draw?”

b)

“Where did they draw the treacle from?”

c)

“What are you, stupid?”

14.

Choose the correct question word:

“I can't find my glasses. _______ are they?”

a)

What

b)

How

c)

Where

15.

To find out the reason for something, we usually ask a question that begins with…

a)

How

b)

What

c)

Why

16.

Which question word is used for asking about time?

a)

where

b)

when

c)

how

17.

“Why did they go there?” means the same as “What did they go there _______?”

a)

for

b)

with

c)

to

18.

I pointed at the phone I wanted to buy and said, “_______ is that one?"

a)

How many

b)

How much

c)

What cost

19.

After they'd checked the cinema listings, Mario said, “_______ one do you want to see?”

a)

How

b)

What

c)

Which

20.

“I wasn't listening. _______ did she say?”

a)

How

b)

What

c)

Why