Name ______Date______Class______9th Grade: Genres of Fiction Study Guide ____ 11. Humor in a story is intended to make the reader Multiple Choice a. gasp in amazement. c. fear what’s about to Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers happen. the question. b. laugh. d. understand a moral ____ 1. An educated guess about a character, based on lesson. something implied or suggested, is a(n) ____ 12. To foreshadow an event is to present a similar a. irony. c. protagonist. event b. inference. d. plot. a. before it happens. c. at the same time. ____ 2. In a good written argument, the writer’s opinion is b. after it happens d. both before and a. stated in big words and long sentences. after it. b. so powerful there is no answer to it. Recall and Interpret (He--y, Come on Ou--t!) c. supported by relevant, concrete evidence. ____ 13. The concessionaires are men of “shifty glances,” d. punctuated with exclamation points. which means they are ____ 3. If one character is tall and intelligent, and the a. quick witted. c. dangerous. other is short and thick-witted, the relationship b. not entirely honest. d. shrewd businessmen. between the two is one of ____ 14. The mayor gave away the hole because a. comparison. c. antagonism. a. he wanted to go c. he knew all about b. symbolism. d. contrast. along with the the hole. ____ 4. A good way of summarizing is to people. a. read as fast as you can. b. he sincerely believed d. he was a decisive b. circle all nouns and adjectives in the story. this was right. leader. c. take notes as you read. ____ 15. People use the hole for things they d. tell a friend what you liked best. a. consider trivial and c. consider unpleasant ____ 5. In a mystery story, because clues often explain the forgettable. or hazardous. ending, it is good to b. think are too costly. d. want to keep a. skip to the last c. watch for the forever. chapter right away. moral. ____ 16. A real-life parallel to the story may be the b. write down every d. analyze details as irresponsible dumping of character’s name. you read. a. clean dirt. c. toxic waste. ____ 6. Hooting, howling, and hissing are sensory details b. leftover food. d. sand. appealing to ____ 17. The hole becomes a metaphor for a. seeing. c. hearing. a. the mayor’s weakness. c. a garbage pit. b. smelling. d. touching. b. society’s d. human greed. ____ 7. Realistic stories typically have irresponsibility. a. fantastic elements. c. dashing heroes and ____ 18. The setting of the story sword fights. a. could be anywhere. c. is on another planet. b. a setting familiar to d. lots of foreign b. could only be d. is supposed to be us. words. Japan. unbelievable. ____ 8. Mysteries often have a first-person narrator so that Vocabulary (He--y, Come on Ou--t!) the reader a. knows only a limited amount. ____ 19. If a person’s story is plausible, you are likely to b. can figure out the ending more easily. a. doubt it. b. believe it. c. deny it. c. is much more horrified by the ending. ____ 20. When a group of people disperse, they d. can let someone else do all the thinking. a. gather b. march in a c. leave in many ____ 9. “I have had one or two little scores of my own to together. straight directions. settle with Mr. John Clay,” said Holmes. line. The author included this passage in order to ____ 21. A person who is your cohort a. tell what the theme c. build suspense. a. belongs to b. is your c. is a stranger. is. your group. enemy. b. provide a moral. d. create symbols. ____ 22. Someone in a reverie is likely to be ____ 10. The sequence of events in a short story, novel, or a. brusque b. humorous. c. distracted. drama is called the and a. plot. c. characterization. critical. b. setting. d. humor. Recall and Interpret (The Mystery of Hunter’s a. Spaulding’s habit of visiting the basement. Lodge) b. the fact that Wilson has visited China. ____ 23. Hastings says the mystery “will never be solved.” c. the pawnshop’s nearness to the bank. The author has him say this to d. the hollow sound of the vault floor. a. make Poirot’s solution more impressive. ____ 33. Holmes’s rapping on the street with his cane b. show how stupid Hastings is. foreshadows c. show that Hastings has no confidence in a. Wilson’s rapping on the door of the Red- Poirot. Headed League. d. make Hastings seem like a complainer. b. Spaulding’s rapping on Wilson’s door. ____ 24. Havering’s motive for killing his uncle is c. Merryweather’s rapping on the vault floor. a. revenge. c. to frame his wife for d. Watson’s rapping on Holmes’s door. the murder. b. to punish his wife. d. to inherit his uncle’s ____ 34. What Holmes calls a “three-pipe” problem is very fortune. a. difficult, demanding all his concentration. ____ 25. The story’s climax occurs when b. enjoyable, like his favorite pipe. a. Poirot’s first telegram c. Poirot explains the c. routine and ordinary. arrives. mystery. d. long and costly. b. Harrington Pace is d. the police arrest the murdered. killers. Vocabulary (The Red-Headed League) ____ 26. Phrases such as “bien sur” and “croyez-moi!” ____ 35. A singular incident happens remind the reader that Poirot is a. on a regular b. very rarely. c. every day. a. French. c. Russian. schedule b. English. d. Belgian. ____ 36. If you pay a nominal amount for something, it ____ 27. The death of the murderers in a plane crash after costs you getting away with their crime is a. very little. b. very much. c. nothing. a. logical. c. predestined. ____ 37. Holmes’s languid features were b. ironic. d. tragic. a. tense. b. dreamy. c. grinning. ____ 38. A formidable army is Vocabulary (The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge) a. easily b. sly and c. mighty and ____ 28. To believe implicitly in something is to overcome. cunning. challenging. a. have serious c. have no doubts reservations about it. about it. Recall and Interpret (The Rule of Names) b. wonder if it is true. d. hope that it is true. ____ 29. A prodigal person ____ 39. Mr. Underhill is a funny sort of wizard because a. keeps a careful c. makes lots of a. he is so powerful. c. he is always budget at all times. money. cracking jokes. b. throws money around d. likes wild parties. b. his spells are d. his magic often recklessly. amazing. doesn’t work. ____ 30. Someone who is a veritable walking encyclopedia ____ 40. The setting of the story is a. is not very well c. is always asking a. a fantastic place in a magical fairyland. informed. questions. b. a place similar to the real small towns of our b. knows thousands of d. spends a lot of time time. things. looking things up. c. spooky and mysterious. d. a land in the distant future. ____ 41. The author writes that “there must have been a Recall and Interpret (The Red-Headed League) leak or two in the spell” to create ____ 31. Spaulding offers to look after Wilson’s business a. suspense. c. humor. because b. excitement. d. irony. a. he is hoping for a c. he plans to dig a ____ 42. The story’s climax occurs when promotion. tunnel during that a. the two wizards c. Mr. Underhill hides time. meet. out. b. he seeks revenge d. Wilson suspects b. the two wizards do d. Blackbeard arrives. against Wilson. that he is a bank battle. robber. ____ 43. The words small, bowlegs, yellow, and gigantic ____ 32. One false clue, used by the author to fool the all appeal to the sense of reader, is a. sight. c. taste. b. smell. d. touch. d. may be stronger than creatures from space. ____ 44. A phrase that appeals to the reader’s sense of ____ 54. The galley is the place where the crew members sound is a. eat. c. work. a. “white, white as c. “crashing water, b. sleep. d. cook. chalk” thundering down” b. “The scaly mouth” d. “a lot of dust came Vocabulary (The Sentinel) spewing out” ____ 55. An enigma is something to a. admire. b. avoid. c. wonder Vocabulary (The Rule of Names) about. ____ 45. After she drank the elixir, her illness ____ 56. A tantalizing offer is one you a. worsened. b. was cured. c. spread to a. want but can’t quite have. others. b. don’t want. ____ 46. Someone who is not literate has not learned to c. can’t have. a. sing or b. add or c. read or ____ 57. An irrevocable decision cannot be dance. subtract. write. a. carried b. understood. c. reversed. out. ____ 58. When the tide ebbs, it ____ 47. Water spewing from a leak is coming out a. rises. b. recedes. c. moves in a. in a powerful b. in a fine c. drop by circles. stream. mist. drop. ____ 48. Swimmers avoid the cataract so that they won’t be a. pulled down by a whirlpool. b. swept over the falls. c. swept ashore by waves.

Recall and Interpret (The Sentinel) S Short Answer ____ 49. Something that the narrator shares with the sentinel is that both are Analyze and Evaluate (He--y, Come on Ou--t!) a. dwellers on the c. better off on earth. moon. 59. What is the moral of this selection? How might b. strangers visiting d. mere mechanical the moral apply to events in our own time and the moon. devices. place? ____ 50. The sentinel’s forces “had challenged Eternity.” This means they must have been there Analyze and Evaluate (The Sentinel) a. for a short time. c. forever. b. for a very long d. for about 50 years. 60. Which details about the sentinel itself indicate that time. it was made by beings very superior to humans? ____ 51. Those who broke through the sentinel’s shield learned only that those who made it were a. a dangerous, c. technologically very Evaluate and Connect (The Rule of Names) warlike race. advanced. b. probably other d. wasteful. 61. The author builds suspense in the story by humans. foreshadowing the true identities of Mr. Underhill ____ 52. The “sentinel” seems to be evidence that humans and Blackbeard. She does this by providing clues, are one of which occurs when Mr. Underhill’s cave is a. the only race of c. about to be invaded invaded. Another occurs as Blackbeard’s ship is thinking creatures. by aliens. sailing into Sattins Harbor. Describe the specific b. not alone among d. wrong to be clues she gives and what they foreshadow. intelligent creatures. colonizing space. ____ 53. The author’s purpose is to suggest that we humans a. may not be as smart as we think we are. b. may be too modest about our accomplishments. c. may be smarter than those who left the sentinel.