Literature Test Review

Which of the following is a theme of Jack and the Beanstalk?

Which type of question can be answered by directly pointing to information in the text?

Which connection relates the text to a book, a film, or a television program (usually fiction)?

Which of the following demonstrates plot in Jack and the Beanstalk?

Identify the question type: "Was it right for Jack to steal the giant's property?"

Which type of question requires the reader to make value judgments outside of the text?

Identify the connection type: Jack and the Beanstalk and a how-to article about gardening.

In plot development, what is the time that occurs after and shows the effects of the climax?

In Jack and the Beanstalk, Mother, Jack, and the giant are examples of what?

What type of question requires the reader to put facts and hints together from the text?

In Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack's house and the giant's castle are examples of what?

In plot development, what is the point of highest tension or the turning point?

Identify the connection type: Jack and the Beanstalk and the film The Iron Giant.

In plot development, what part of the story provides background information?

Which connection relates the text to current events or history (usually nonfiction)?

What is the main idea of a piece of literature?

What is the sequence of actions and events in a literary work?

What is a story's time, place, and background?

Identify the question type: "Why does Jack believe the man when he says the beans are magic?"

Which connection relates the text to something that happened to the reader personally?

At what point in the plot does the conflict cause the tension to increase?

Identify the question type: "What does Jack get in exchange for his cow?"

Who or what are the people or other beings that take part in the action of a story or novel?

In plot development, what part of the story wraps things up, tying up loose ends?

Identify the connection type: Jack and the Beanstalk and a student's own distaste for beans.