Theme in Fiction Quiz

What do we call the main idea, lesson or message of a story?

• Plot
• Setting
• Theme
• Conflict

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What is the topic?

• What the story is all about

• The lesson learned

• Read between the lines

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What is "theme?"

• What the story is mainly about

• The moral or life lesson found within a story

• The different pictures you can put on your desktop

• The subject of a piece of writing

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Three flies notice an overflowing honey pot. Two of the flies decide to land in the pot and eat the honey, but the oldest fly stays back. The two flies tease the older fly because he doesn't have any honey. Then, the two flies realize they are stuck in the honey.

What is a possible theme of the story?

• Be happy with what you have

• Flies like to eat honey

• Teamwork

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What is the life lesson, message, or moral of a story?

• exposition

• theme

• plot

• rising action

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Which of the following is an example of theme?

• Jack risked his life to save Jane.

• Hard work pays off in the end.

• Courage

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Can a story can have more than one theme?

• Yes

• No

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Where can a reader find the theme?

• It stated directly in the text.
• A character tells you.
• The reader must understand what the character has learned.
• Books or movies do not have themes.

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Which of the following is NOT a theme?

• sharing with others is caring
• money is the root of all evil
• hard work pays off
• love

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How do you support the validity of a theme?

• text evidence
• summarizing
• you can't
• using the plot

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