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ENGLISH QUIZ #1

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What do pronouns replace?
a)
prepositions
b)
verbs
c)

nouns

d)
adjectives
2.

What is the adverb in this sentence?

Sally read that book quickly so she checked out another one.

a)

another

b)

read

c)

quickly

d)

so

3.

What is the preposition in the sentence?

My favorite series in the library is probably the Theodore Boone series.

a)

favorite

b)

probably

c)

in

d)

my

4.

What is the pronoun in this sentence?

My teacher read us a story about children from long ago.

a)

teacher

b)

us

c)

children

d)

from

5.

What is the noun in this sentence?

I am so tired I could sleep for years.

a)

so

b)

tired

c)

sleep

d)

years

6.

What is the verb in this sentence?

I just cannot look at this!

a)

just

b)

I

c)

cannot

d)

look

7.

What is the preposition?

My husband sent me a dozen yellow roses for our anniversay?

a)

my

b)

sent

c)

yellow

d)

for

8.

Wow! NO!!! Ouch!

a)

CONJUNCTIONS

b)

ADJECTIVES

c)

ADVERBS

d)

INTERJECTIONS

9.

FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)

a)

CONJUNCTIONS

b)

INTERJECTIONS

c)

PREPOSITIONS

d)

ADJECTIVES

10.

Read the sentence. How would you rewrite it using a pronoun?

I walked up the hill to wait for Lily.

a)

I walked up the hill to wait for her.

b)

I walked down the hill to wait for Leslie.

c)

I climbed up the hill to wait for Leslie.

d)

I walked quickly up the hill to wait for Leslie.

11.

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

a)

a) Vanessa’s vaccine defends her vulnerable body from the virus

b)

b) Lucy jumps at least a hundred feet in the air

c)

c) Joseph’s vaccine lowers his chances of getting the virus

12.
The example highlighted below is an example of?
They boy with the toy had so much joy.
a)
assonance
b)

connsonance

c)

allieration

d)

none

13.

What sound device is used in the picture?

a)

alliteration

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

assonance

14.

Sound devices can ....

a)

make the poem meaningful.

b)

create rhythm and make the poem easy to be memorized.

c)

create an image in the mind of reader.

d)

make the theme clear.

15.
repeated consonant sounds at the ends of words
On the top of the step he will tip his cap.
a)
alliteration
b)
consonance
c)
assonance
d)
onomatopoeia
16.

Big, bad Bernie Bean-Toes ate two banana bunches

a)

alliteration

b)

assonance

c)

consonance

d)

why does Ms. Schleiden let her cat eat bananas?

17.

What is the rhyme scheme in the following poem excerpt?

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

a)

quatrain

b)

tercet

c)

couplet

18.

Which poetic device is used in the following line?

The water plopped into the lake in big droplets.

a)

personification

b)

alliteration

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

metaphor

19.

Klarissa Klein drives an old, grumbling Cadillac which has a crumpled bumper and screaming, honking horn. This is an example of:

a)

Alliteration

b)

Cacophony

c)

Onomatopeia

20.

What's the rhyme scheme?

You just want attention, you don't want my heart

Maybe you just hate the thought of me with someone new

Yeah, you just want attention, I knew from the start

You're just making sure I'm never gettin' over you

a)

couplet

b)

tercet

c)

quatrain

d)

ABCB

21.

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem below?


Others abide our question. Thou art free.

We ask and ask—Thou smilest and art still,

Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill,

Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty,

a)

couplet

b)

tercet

c)

quatrain

22.

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem below?


I would not like them here or there. (A)

I would not like them anywhere. (A)

I do not like green eggs and ham. (B)

I do not like them, Sam-I-Am. (B)

a)

quatrain

b)

Couplet

c)

tercet

23.

Shall we go sing the song, the song?

Never Love did ever wrong,

Fair maids, hold hands all along.

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem above?

a)

couplet

b)

tercet

c)

quatrain

24.

Since the young girl was unable to care for the newborn, she decided to ____________the child at a fire station.

a)

abet

b)

abandon

c)

abolitionist

d)

abject

25.

When Mark lost his job, he was _______________ for weeks and would not leave his house.  

a)

abandon

b)

abolitionist

c)

aberration

d)

abject

26.

The photo editing software is sure to _________ my odds of winning the photo competition.

a)

abolitionist

b)

abet

c)

aberration

d)

abandon

27.

She is normally calm and level headed, so this outburst is an ____________.

a)

aberration

b)

abolitionist

c)

abet

28.

Alexander became an __________ and he is mentioned in the submissions to the Parliamentary Committee for the abolition for the slave trade.

a)

abject

b)

abolitionist

c)

abet

d)

abandon