Ghost Stories and Urban Legends
Quiz
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English
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6th - 9th Grade
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Hard
+15
Standards-aligned
Margaret Anderson
FREE Resource
9 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Tick the facts about spiders that are actually true. (The others are urban legends.)
Female spiders can lay up to 3000 eggs at a time.
The average person swallows eight spiders per year.
Some spiders can jump up to fifty times their own length.
You are never more than three feet from a spider.
Spiders can lay eggs under human skin.
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When did the legends about alligators in New York's sewer system first begin?
1880s
1900s
1930s
1970s
Tags
CCSS.RL.4.9
CCSS.RL.8.9
3.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
An urban legend is a made-up story that is told as if it's ____________.
Tags
CCSS.RL.4.9
CCSS.RL.8.9
4.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Which of these are common features of urban legends?
Familiarity (e.g. a setting you know, a common object, a link to someone you know)
Factual (sometimes scientific) language.
Vague references to authorities (e.g. the police).
Terrifying, descriptive metaphors and similes.
Direct speech.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of these is an example of a supernatural being?
Your English teacher
The person sitting next to you
A ghost
A person with hooks for hands
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
6.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Give one example of a time connective (one word) implying that not much time has passed between the previous event and the next.
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.3
CCSS.RI.7.3
CCSS.RI.8.3
CCSS.RI.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
7.
OPEN ENDED QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
Explain, in your own words, how urban legends often end, and what effect this has on the reader/listener.
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8.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which types of sentence structures work best when you're telling an urban legend?
Mostly very short sentences to make it sound factual.
Consistently mid-length sentences to add detail but not bore the reader.
All very long sentences to develop descriptions.
A mix of different sentence lengths to build tension by varying the pace.
9.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • Ungraded
How well have you understood the topic so far?
Very well
Quite well
I need to revise a little
I need to revise a lot
I need some help from the teacher
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.10
CCSS.RI.7.10
CCSS.RL.6.10
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.8.10
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