This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Classics > The Ransom Of Red Chief – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are the most effective crime-fighting methods today? A) Forensic science, digital data, and trace evidence such as DNA. B) Fingerprints and eyewitness testimony. C) Blood evidence, fingerprints, shoe prints, and hair analysis. D) Lie detector tests and trace evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forensic science, digital data, and trace evidence such as DNA. 2. What does theme add to a story? A) A sense of location. B) An important message. C) Motivation for the characters. D) Dialogue for the characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An important message. 3. This character narrates the story: A) Red Chief. B) Ebenezer Dorset. C) Bill Driscoll. D) Sam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sam. 4. To infer, is to ..... ? A) Make an educated guess based on prior knowledge. B) To make up information. C) To assume something. D) To guess. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Make an educated guess based on prior knowledge. 5. Sam and Bill chose Summit for the kidnapping because A) In small towns, parents are very close to their children. B) It doesn't have a police force. C) In small towns, parents are NOT very close to their children. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In small towns, parents are very close to their children. 6. To act according to a command, request, or order. A) Pervade. B) Diatribe. C) Imp. D) Comply. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comply. 7. An expression that means something other than the literal meaning (i.e., It's raining cats and dogs). A) Irony. B) Euphemism. C) Idiom. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 8. Evidence that serves to corroborate (agree with) something A) Imply. B) Summarize. C) Support. D) Negate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Support. 9. Which event leads you to predict that Billwill agree to Mr. Dorset's demand? A) Sam threatens to take the boy home ifthe boy does not behave. B) Bill tells the boy to quit kicking or theboy will be in trouble. C) Sam admits to Bill that the boy hasgotten on his nerves. D) Bill tells Sam to ask for only fifteenhundred dollars in ransom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bill tells Sam to ask for only fifteenhundred dollars in ransom. 10. What was Red Chief doing right before Sam and Bill kidnapped him? A) Scalping his dad. B) Pretending to be an Indian. C) Hunting bears. D) Throwing rocks at a kitten. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Throwing rocks at a kitten. 11. Payment demanded for the release of a person or property is A) Provisions. B) Diatribe. C) Comply. D) Ransom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ransom. 12. Which word best describes Pecos Bill? A) Wild. B) Careful. C) Hilarious. D) Blunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wild. 13. The main character of the story is the ..... A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonist. 14. A suggested plan A) Pervade. B) Ransom. C) Proposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proposition. 15. When Bill is telling Sam that he took Red Chief down the mountain and sent him back home, we know that Red Chief is sneaking up behind Bill. This is an example of ..... A) Verbal Irony. B) Situational Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) This is not ironic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic Irony. 16. Sleepy, drowsy A) Diatribe. B) Sleepy. C) Peremptory. D) Acceded. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sleepy. 17. A price demanded in return for the release of property or person A) Surreptitiously. B) Proposition. C) Ransom. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ransom. 18. Which of the following words is a synonym for provisions. A) Supplies. B) Money. C) Petrol. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Supplies. 19. Which word means a person who deserts one group or side for another? A) Apparition. B) Renegade. C) Prominent. D) Sylvan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renegade. 20. Who said ..... "I wasn't nervous or afraid; but I sat up and lit my pipe and leaned against a rock" . A) Bill. B) Sam. C) Red Chief. D) Aunt Jane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bill. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesThe Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 1The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 2The 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 10The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 11 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books