This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Classics > The Ransom Of Red Chief – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 13 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the definition of "genre?" A) The study of genes. B) The narrator of a story. C) The type of literature you're reading. D) The author of a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The type of literature you're reading. 2. What is the definition of an idiom? A) A phrase that means something other than what it says. B) A combination of 2 opposites. C) A comparison between 2 objects. D) A comparison using "like" or "as". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A phrase that means something other than what it says. 3. People who are described as "loners" tend to be ..... A) Moral. B) Lackadaisical. C) Industrious. D) Solitary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Solitary. 4. In the text, it says the boy "started up a howl like a calliope." What did it sound like? A) I low growl. B) Sniffling and crying. C) I high pitched noise. D) Sounded like an Indian noise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I high pitched noise. 5. Ending, or not open to, discussion, debate, or further action; dictatorial:expected to be obeyed; expressing urgency A) Peasantry. B) Peremptory. C) Apparition. D) Depred. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peremptory. 6. (n.) natural tendencies A) Apparition. B) Proposition. C) Diatribe. D) Proclivities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Proclivities. 7. Which one is a synonym for "diatribe?" A) Family. B) Criticism. C) A large meal. D) Anxious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Criticism. 8. What did Bill and Sam end up doing after reading the letter back from Mr. Dorset? A) Running away without returning the boy. B) Taking the boy back to Summit and paying Mr. Dorset $ 250. C) Sent another ransom note saying they did not agree to the deal. D) Told Mr. Dorset to have cash in the box by midnight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taking the boy back to Summit and paying Mr. Dorset $ 250. 9. What is the climax of "The Ransom of Red Chief?" A) When the kidnappers find out that they are going to have to pay to bring Red Chief home. B) When Bill and Sam kidnap Red Chief. C) When Red Chief sneaks up behind Bill. D) When Sam goes up to the top of the mountain and looks around them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When the kidnappers find out that they are going to have to pay to bring Red Chief home. 10. Complete the sentence:The couple worked ..... enough to be able to put down a payment on a house. A) Ferocious. B) Industriously. C) Philoprogenitiveness. D) Recognize. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Industriously. 11. Which word means to give consent or approval? A) Emit. B) Decry. C) Recognize. D) Accede. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Accede. 12. Which of these words is a synonym for impudent. A) Joyful. B) Disrespectful. C) Angry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disrespectful. 13. The name of the town "Summit" being flat as a flannel cake is and example of what? A) Verbal irony. B) Situational irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) Edible irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal irony. 14. What is a random example of an oxymoron? A) Cruel, evil. B) Cruel kindness. C) Ahhhh!. D) Eeeek!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cruel kindness. 15. Red Chief could be described as an ..... child. A) Impudent. B) Surreptitiously. C) Commentable. D) Pervading. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Impudent. 16. Irony usually involves something that is A) False. B) Silly. C) Unexpected. D) Unimportant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unexpected. 17. Which vocabulary word means to get on to criticize severely? A) Cleave. B) Attribute. C) Requite. D) Chastise. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chastise. 18. A reference within a work to something famous outside it, such as a well-known person, place, event, story, or work of art, literature, music, pop culture. A) Mood. B) Theme. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 19. The overall structure of a short story is called ..... ? A) Resolution. B) Climax. C) Plot. D) Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plot. 20. Pecos Bill was raised by what animal? A) Cattle. B) Coyotes. C) Wolves. D) Apes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coyotes. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesThe Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 1The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 2The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 3The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 4The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 5The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 6The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 7The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 8The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 9The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books