Literature Quiz

Meg Medina won a Newbery Medal for writing about which of the following girls?

• Kaori Tanaka

• Merci Suárez

• Flora Buckman

• Petra Peña

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Amina Luqman-Dawson imagined two children’s escape from slavery in which Newbery-winning novel below?

• When You Trap a Tiger

• The Girl Who Drank the Moon

• Freewater

• The Crossover

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In Doug Salati’s Caldecott-winning picture book Hot Dog, the title animal and his owner escape the city’s heat by visiting which of the following locations?

• the mountains

• the beach

• the North Pole

• the park

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Which one of the Caldecott winners below is set in the 1860s?

• Finding Winnie

• Radiant Child

• Watercress

• Locomotive

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Edward Lear specialized in what kind of funny, 5-line poem?

• limerick

• concrete poem

• acrostic

• haiku

Below are four types of poems. Which one is a long narrative poem in which a hero completes a quest?

• elegy

• ode

• sonnet

• epic

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Which of the following choices is an example of internal conflict in literature?

• person vs. nature

• person vs. self

• person vs. person

• person vs. society

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Below are four parts of a story’s plot. Which one occurs LATEST?

• exposition

• climax

• resolution

• falling action

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In 1972, which of the following authors won a Newbery Medal for his science fiction book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH?

• Paul Zindel

• Norton Juster

• Robert C. O’Brien

• Gary Paulsen

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Match each Rick Riordan novel with its series. The Hammer of Thor - Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard The Serpent’s Shadow - The Kane Chronicles The Trials of Apollo - The Tower of Nero

• x-1, y-2, z-3

• x-2, y-1, z-3

• x-3, y-2, z-1

• x-3, y-1, z-2

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