Q1 Narrative Summative Practice Assessment

What are the 3 reasons an author might write a story?

• to entertain you, to scare you, to make you laugh

• to entertain you, to inform you , to persuade you

• to inform you, to persuade you, to give you information

• to give you information, to entertain you, to teach you

What is the setting of a story?

• All the characters in the story

• Why the story is written

• Where the story takes place

• What happens in the story

Another word for the conclusion of a story is....

• the falling action

• the lead

• the rising action

• the resolution

In the story "The Challenge", Estella can best be described as....

• shy

• passionate

• fearful

• angry

Which event in the story "The Challenge" shows Jose is trying to impress Estella?

• Jose does 10 pushups

• Jose says he has won a couple racquetball tournaments

• Jose wins every point when they play

• Jose asks for his uncle's racquet.

Match the following

• infer

• "Pretty good," he said without thinking as he slipped into a lie. "I won a couple of tournaments."

  • *

  • He's trying to impress Estella.

• connection

• Over the weekend he wiped out while riding his bike, popping up over curbs with his eyes closed.

  • *

  • I wiped out on my bike once.

• question

• The story "The Challenge" reminds me of a saying, "you can't judge a book by its cover".

• summarize

• After school Jose pedaled his bike over to his uncle Freddie's house. His uncle was sixteen, only three years older than Jose. It made Jose fell awkward when someone, usually a girl, asked,"Who's that hunk?"

  • *

  • These are sentences describing Jose's uncle, Freddie.

• theme

• "I'm Estella. My friends call me Stinger."

  • *

  • I wonder why her friends call her that.

Put the events that happened in "The Challenge" in the correct order from start to finish. The start would be a number 1, followed by a 2, then a 3, and the ending would be a 4.

• He even tried doing his homework.

• Jose figured another way to get to know her. He had noticed the grimy, sweat-blackened handle of a racket poking out of her backpack.

• After school Jose pedaled his bike over to his uncle Freddie's house.

• For three weeks Jose tried to get the attention of Estella, the new girl at his middle school.

• Uncle Freddie was right. He had lost twenty-one to nada.

Which of the following would make another great title for the story "The Challenge"

• Big Sandwiches

• Learn How to Play Racketball

• Jose Learns a Lesson

• How to Get Better Grades