Writer's Choice Grade 6

Unit 4: Narrative Writing

Multiple choice Quiz


1.	A narrative answers the question _______________.
		A)	Who did it?
		B)	What happened?
		C)	What went wrong?
		D)	How do you do this?


2.	Another word for narrative is ____________.
		A)	poem
		B)	story
		C)	play
		D)	title


3.	The most important thing to do when you start a narrative is to _____________.
		A)	name all the characters
		B)	say when the action took place
		C)	make the reader want to read on
		D)	explain where the action took place


4.	One way to keep events in order when you write a narrative is to ____________.
		A)	write about a real-life event
		B)	use consistent verb tenses
		C)	look in a family scrapbook for story ideas
		D)	choose an interesting place to write about


5.	When choosing details for your story, you should _______________.
		A)	use as few details as possible
		B)	include as many details as you can
		C)	choose only the most important details
		D)	write the details in the order in which you think of them


6.	Narratives are often organized by ________________.
		A)	time order
		B)	place order
		C)	character order
		D)	alphabetical order


7.	The words spoken by the characters in a story are called ___________.
		A)	action
		B)	setting
		C)	dialogue
		D)	chronological order


8.	To show which words a character speaks, put quotation marks ____________.
		A)	at the end of the character’s exact words
		B)	before and after the character’s exact words
		C)	at the beginning of the character’s exact words
		D)	at the beginning and the end of the entire paragraph


9.	The best way to show that a different character is speaking is to ______________.
		A)	use an identifying phrase such as he said
		B)	use quotation marks around a speaker’s exact words
		C)	write, "Now a different character is talking"
		D)	start a new paragraph whenever a different character speaks


10.	The story of a person’s life, written by someone else, is a(n) _______________.
		A)	primary source
		B)	autobiography
		C)	biography
		D)	dialogue