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A Night to Remember Quiz

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Fredrick Fleet and Reginald Lee were the ____ on the ship.

a)

quartermaster

b)

lookouts

c)

passenger

d)

steward

2.
The quartermaster of the ship was named _______
a)
George Thomas Rowe
b)
James Johnson
c)
Walter Bedford
d)
Reginald Lee
3.
The captian of the Titanic was named ______.
a)
J. Bruce Ismay
b)
Walter B. Stephenson
c)
Edward J. Smith
d)
John Jacob Astor
4.
The man who financed the building of the ship is named ______.
a)
Edward J. Smith
b)
Fredrick Fleet
c)
J. Bruce Ismay
d)
Reginald Lee
5.

The Titanic disaster happened on the ____ night of the voyage.

a)

5th

b)

3rd

c)

1st

d)

1st

6.

What date did the Titanic disaster happen?

a)

April 14, 1912

b)

May 14, 1919

c)

June 14, 2021

7.
The story shows various points of views of the characters in the _____ time period before the boat turned.
a)
73 hours
b)
37 seconds
c)
37 hours
d)
10 minutes
8.

When the narrator says "the ship raced" he is using what type of figurative language?

a)

simile

b)

personification

c)

metaphor

9.

When the narrator says "the Atlantic was like plate glass" he is using what type of figurative language?

a)

metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

personification

10.

The phrase, "splinters of ice as fine as dust" is an example of a ____.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

11.

Lady Cosmo describes the jolt as a finger being drawn down the side of the ship. This sentence is an example of what type of figurative language?

a)

simile

b)

personification

c)

metaphor

12.

Albert Cadwell described the jolt as feeling like a dog shaking a kitten in its mouth. This sentence is an example of what type of figurative language?

a)

simile

b)

personification

c)

metaphor

13.
This was the fifth night of the Titanic's _______ voyage to New York, and it was already clear that she was not only the largest but also the most glamorous ship in the world.
a)
first
b)
knot
c)
maiden
14.
Just the night, the stars, the biting cold, the wind that whistled through the rigging as the Titanic raced across the calm, black sea at 22½ ______.
a)
miles
b)
knots
c)
maiden
15.
Then, miraculously, the bow began to swing to ________.
a)
jar
b)
ominous
c)
port
16.
At the last second the stem shot into the clear, and the ice glided swiftly by along the _______ side.
a)
galley
b)
starboard
c)
calico
17.
As he paced the deck, he noticed what he and his mates called “Whiskers ’round the Light”—tiny splinters of ice in the air, fine as dust, that gave off _____ of bright colors whenever caught in the glow of the deck lights.
a)
myriads
b)
jars
c)
calicos
18.
Then, as they sat there talking, a faint grinding ____ seemed to come from somewhere deep inside the ship.
a)
myriad
b)
jar
c)
stern
19.
He recognized the kind of _____ a ship gives when she drops a propeller blade, and he knew this sort of mishap meant a trip back to the Harland & Wolff shipyard at Belfast—with plenty of free time to enjoy the hospitality of the _____.
a)
ominious, stern
b)
shudder, port
c)
myriad, starboard
20.
the area for food preparation on a ship
a)
galley
b)
aft
c)
stern
21.

"Until now the Titanic had been a picnic." What is this quote an example of?

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

imagery

d)

personification

22.

Night Baker Walter Bedford was making rolls for the following day when the jar came. A synonym for Jar is ...

a)

knot

b)

jolt

c)

knocking

d)

stern

23.

Many of the first class passengers did not believe the jar to be ____ at the beginning.

a)

loud

b)

bad

c)

ominous

d)

port

24.

Members in the 3rd class saw the iceberg through their ___.

a)

window

b)

doorway

c)

a gash in the side of the ship

d)

porthole

25.

True or false: In the first 37 seconds when the iceberg hit the ship, everyone was safe and no one died.

a)

True

b)

False