Deck 10: Reading and Writing Explanatory Texts

Question 1

Directions: Choose the best answer based on the information you read in Chapter 10.
Which of the following is good advice for including dialogue in a narrative?

A) Avoid dialogue; it detracts from the sensory details.
B) Insert dialogue as often as possible; readers enjoy it.
C) Be selective with dialogue; make sure it adds to the narrative.
D) Dialogue is best left to professional writers.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Directions: Apply the knowledge you have gained from Chapter 10 to answer the following questions.
Choose the properly formatted sentence:

A) You need to have an educational plan before you select your courses, my college counselor suggested.
B) "You need to have an educational plan before you select your courses, my college counselor suggested.
C) "You need to have an educational plan before you select your courses.", my college counselor suggested.
D) "You need to have an educational plan before you select your courses," my college counselor suggested.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Directions: Apply the knowledge you have gained from Chapter 10 to select the best answer to the questions about the following reading passages.
Imogen Cunningham was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the end of the nineteenth century. She spent her life making loving photographic portraits of people in the cities where she lived. At the end of her life she made stirring portraits of people who were, as she put it, "alive and kicking." She photographed many people in their nineties like Old Norton in his shack and the nursing home resident feeling forgotten and forlorn, for whom the main challenge of life was merely to live through each day.
-adapted from Kornblum, Sociology in a Changing World , p. 366
What inference can be made from this reading?

A) Cunningham took photos of animals as well as people.
B) Old Norton was probably very poor.
C) Cunningham was born in Scranton.
D) Cunningham was also a painter.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Directions: Choose the best answer based on the information you read in Chapter 10.
A time line organizes key details in a narrative into chronological order.

Question 5

Directions: Choose the best answer based on the information you read in Chapter 10.
Realistic narrative paragraphs include more telling details and fewer showing details.

Question 6

Directions: Apply the knowledge you have gained from Chapter 10 to answer the following questions.
Choose the properly formatted sentence:

A) Did Josette say that she would send the invitations for the party?
B) Did Josette say, "that she would send the invitations for the party"?
C) Did Josette say that "she would send the invitations for the party?"
D) Did Josette say, "she would send the invitations for the party"?

Question 7

Directions: Apply the knowledge you have gained from Chapter 10 to answer the following questions.
Choose the properly formatted sentence:

A) Were you serious when you said, "I'll help with anything?"
B) Were you serious when you said, "I'll help with anything"?
C) Were you serious when you said I'll help with anything?
D) Were you serious when "you said, I'll help with anything"?

Question 8

I was relishing my final evening in Dubrovnik, a medieval walled city in Croatia known for its ornate gates and orange-tiled roofed buildings, when I was stopped by the sweet aroma of freshly baked pastries coming from a street cart by the road. Digging through my brown leather coin purse, I found a lone dinar and handed it to the pastry cart attendant. That last day of vacation will forever be linked to the still-warm circle of pastry the attendant exchanged for my little coin and my grateful "Hvala!" The burek , a savory pastry made of phyllo dough wrapped around soft white cheese, was rolled into a spiral much like an enormous cinnamon bun. With my first bite into the buttery phyllo, I became a lifelong devotee. The flaky dough complemented the cheese, which came out in chewy strings, like mozzarella on a pizza, but much tangier. I ate every last morsel of that street food delight and then went home armed with a new recipe book to help me recreate that special meal whenever I am feeling nostalgic for beautiful Dubrovnik.
Use context clues to infer the meaning of the word "devotee."

A) Someone who enjoys taking vacations.
B) Someone who is very enthusiastic about something.
C) Someone who likes cheese.
D) Someone who lives in Dubrovnik.

Question 9

Directions: Choose the best answer based on the information you read in Chapter 10.
Revise a narrative draft by adding ___________ nouns, verbs, and modifiers.

A) many
B) specific
C) general
D) matching

Question 10

Directions: Choose the best answer based on the information you read in Chapter 10.
To narrate is to ________________.

A) debate a controversial issue.
B) give an account of an event.
C) explain a process.
D) give information on a topic.

Question 11

Directions: Choose the best answer based on the information you read in Chapter 10.
Indirect quotations do not use quotation marks.

Question 12

I was relishing my final evening in Dubrovnik, a medieval walled city in Croatia known for its ornate gates and orange-tiled roofed buildings, when I was stopped by the sweet aroma of freshly baked pastries coming from a street cart by the road. Digging through my brown leather coin purse, I found a lone dinar and handed it to the pastry cart attendant. That last day of vacation will forever be linked to the still-warm circle of pastry the attendant exchanged for my little coin and my grateful "Hvala!" The burek , a savory pastry made of phyllo dough wrapped around soft white cheese, was rolled into a spiral much like an enormous cinnamon bun. With my first bite into the buttery phyllo, I became a lifelong devotee. The flaky dough complemented the cheese, which came out in chewy strings, like mozzarella on a pizza, but much tangier. I ate every last morsel of that street food delight and then went home armed with a new recipe book to help me recreate that special meal whenever I am feeling nostalgic for beautiful Dubrovnik.
Though all five senses are engaged in the passage, which sensory details dominate?

A) smell
B) hearing
C) sight
D) taste

Question 13

Directions: Choose the best answer based on the information you read in Chapter 10.
A narrative may begin by jumping right into the action rather than with a traditional topic sentence.

Question 14

Directions: Choose the best answer based on the information you read in Chapter 10.
Which of the following is not a type of narrative text?

A) autobiography
B) personal essay
C) memoir
D) argument

Question 15

Directions: Choose the best answer based on the information you read in Chapter 10.
References to the setting in a narrative can help a reader visualize the experience.

Question 16

Directions: Choose the best answer based on the information you read in Chapter 10.
Which of the following activities can help a student plan a personal narrative?

A) Use a sensory chart to gather the sensory details for the narrative.
B) Free write about an experience that had personal significance.
C) Create a time line to organize the events into chronological order.
D) All of the above.

Question 17

Directions: Choose the best answer based on the information you read in Chapter 10.
Effective narratives may include

A) sensory details, including sight, sound, and smell.
B) realistic dialogue.
C) details that answer the 5 W's and H questions.
D) all of the above.

Question 18

Directions: Choose the best answer based on the information you read in Chapter 10.
Narratives often focus on an event that has some heightened importance in a writer's life.

Question 19

Directions: Apply the knowledge you have gained from Chapter 10 to select the best answer to the questions about the following reading passages.
Imogen Cunningham was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the end of the nineteenth century. She spent her life making loving photographic portraits of people in the cities where she lived. At the end of her life she made stirring portraits of people who were, as she put it, "alive and kicking." She photographed many people in their nineties like Old Norton in his shack and the nursing home resident feeling forgotten and forlorn, for whom the main challenge of life was merely to live through each day.
-adapted from Kornblum, Sociology in a Changing World , p. 366
What phrase in the passage is likely Cunningham's exact words?

A) loving photographic portraits
B) forgotten and forlorn
C) alive and kicking
D) live through each day

Question 20

I was relishing my final evening in Dubrovnik, a medieval walled city in Croatia known for its ornate gates and orange-tiled roofed buildings, when I was stopped by the sweet aroma of freshly baked pastries coming from a street cart by the road. Digging through my brown leather coin purse, I found a lone dinar and handed it to the pastry cart attendant. That last day of vacation will forever be linked to the still-warm circle of pastry the attendant exchanged for my little coin and my grateful "Hvala!" The burek , a savory pastry made of phyllo dough wrapped around soft white cheese, was rolled into a spiral much like an enormous cinnamon bun. With my first bite into the buttery phyllo, I became a lifelong devotee. The flaky dough complemented the cheese, which came out in chewy strings, like mozzarella on a pizza, but much tangier. I ate every last morsel of that street food delight and then went home armed with a new recipe book to help me recreate that special meal whenever I am feeling nostalgic for beautiful Dubrovnik.