This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Fiction > Historical Fiction – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Historical Fiction Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Text Features are in informational text A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. What is the main message of the selection? A) You have to take risks in order to get rewarded. B) Journeys are long and tiresome. C) Slow and steady wins the race. D) Honesty is always best. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You have to take risks in order to get rewarded. 3. Read this sentence from paragraph 3. There were waves as tall as mountains. This sentence mainly helps the reader understand that the journey was- A) Slow and tiring. B) Very dangerous. C) Repeated over and over. D) On a very large ship. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Very dangerous. 4. What is the relationship between Ophie and Clara in 'Ophie's Ghosts'? A) They are best friends. B) Clara is a ghost who guides Ophie. C) They are sisters. D) Clara is Ophie's mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clara is a ghost who guides Ophie. 5. Why does Sarah Beth want to go to Hensler's General Store? A) She wants to see Vincent. B) She wants a piece of candy. C) She wants to help her mama by getting the thread and lace she needs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She wants to see Vincent. 6. What type of source is this? A report about the life of Abraham Lincoln written by a 5th grade student A) Secondary. B) Primary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Secondary. 7. The idea of acting with equality, fairness, and dignity to all human beings A) Injustice. B) Social issue. C) Social justice. D) Empathize. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social justice. 8. What is setting in a story? A) The place you read the story in. B) The people who are in the story. C) The places the story takes place in. D) The main events in a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The places the story takes place in. 9. "He came out with a bundle and tied it to his belt with a bandanna. He stuck a hunting knife in his sheath, then took a step toward the river." This is evidence of the ..... characteristic because they are behaving in ways that are realistic to the time period. A) Setting. B) Characters. C) Event. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characters. 10. What does the word moment mean? A) A while later. B) A short period of time. C) The recent past. D) A long break. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A short period of time. 11. Which one of these is NOT an example of a setting for a realistic fiction text? A) School. B) The mall. C) The Titanic. D) Chicago. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Titanic. 12. How does historical fiction contribute to our understanding of the past? A) By relying on fantasy elements. B) By providing accurate historical facts. C) By avoiding historical elements altogether. D) By presenting fictionalized narratives based on historical events. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By presenting fictionalized narratives based on historical events. 13. The word "genre" means..... A) An animal. B) A food. C) A kind or type. D) A genius. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A kind or type. 14. The base word in unhappy is? A) And. B) Happy. C) Y. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Happy. 15. The skill of putting events of a story in time order, is called ..... A) Reading. B) Sequencing. C) Important. D) Learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sequencing. 16. Which is an example of Historical Fiction? A) The Hunger Games. B) Diary of a Wimpy Kid. C) Harry Potter. D) The Watsons Go to Birmingham. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Watsons Go to Birmingham. 17. What is the plural possessive of cows hooves? A) Cow's hooves. B) Cows' hooves. C) Cows hooves'. D) Cows hoove's. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cows' hooves. 18. What happened in the Middle? 2 A) Abigail ate mouse. B) Abigail played hide and seek. C) Abigail got caught in ropes. D) Abigail forgot with ideas. E) Mother sewed the torn quilt. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Mother sewed the torn quilt. 19. What is the definition of spurs? A) Holiday decorations. B) Spiked wheels on boots. C) Clean clothes. D) Framed pictures. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spiked wheels on boots. 20. How can the setting impact a story? A) By influencing the characters' lives and actions. B) By determining the length of the story. C) By creating the conflict in the story. D) By revealing the solution to the problem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By influencing the characters' lives and actions. 21. The problems that characters encounter. A) Historical Background. B) Resolution. C) Beginning. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conflict. 22. What is the historical context of the opium trade in Victorian England? A) It was legal and widely accepted. B) It was a major economic activity. C) It was frowned upon and illegal. D) It had no significance in that era. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was frowned upon and illegal. 23. Which of the following would best qualify for classification as "historical fiction?" A) A story about a slave on the plantation of Thomas JeffersonOption 4 (optional). B) A description of the process used by ancient Egyptians to mummify the dead. C) Michelangelo's description of the human body, accompanied by sketches. D) An account of the current President of the United States reacting to the 1945 nuclear bombing of two Japanese cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A story about a slave on the plantation of Thomas JeffersonOption 4 (optional). 24. Which of the following would NOT be in a historical fiction story? A) A frog talking to a prince. B) Abraham Lincoln as a student at Raceland Middle School. C) George Washington becoming the first President of the United States. D) A young girl watching the bombers fly over Pearl Harbor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A frog talking to a prince. 25. If you are feeling sad, you can make yourself feel better by doing a few simple things. You can take a walk (or do another form of exercise), you can talk to a friend, or you can write down your feelings. Writing down the good things in your life will help too. Doing something good for someone else will also help you feel better. It works like magic to make you feel better! What is the main idea? A) Sometimes people feel sad. B) We're not always happy. C) You should do good things for others. D) There are many ways to make yourself feel better. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) There are many ways to make yourself feel better. 26. What might an author include at the end of their story? A) Another event that is not connected to the story. B) The problem gets worse. C) The character learns a lesson, realizes something, or changes. D) The story starts again. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The character learns a lesson, realizes something, or changes. 27. A resolution to a story is: A) The solution to the problem or conflict in the story. B) The character's traits in the story. C) The conflict in the story. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The solution to the problem or conflict in the story. 28. Spoken in a very quiet voice A) Whispered. B) Yelled. C) Weak. D) Walking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whispered. 29. True or False:The setting of historical fiction is made up. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 30. There is going to be a storm A) Brewing storm. B) Direct. C) Furrowed his brows. D) Dilemma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brewing storm. 31. The theme of a story is: A) The turning point of the story. B) Stated in the first paragraph of the story. C) Part of the title. D) The message or lesson that the author would like the reader to learn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The message or lesson that the author would like the reader to learn. 32. What is the significance of the 'Ruby in the Smoke' in the story? A) It's a historical document. B) It's a symbol of wealth. C) It's a magical artifact. D) It's a stolen gem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It's a stolen gem. 33. What makes sci-fi different from other kinds of fiction? A) Sci-fi always has time-travelling aliens, spaceships and talking robots. B) Other genres are based on true events that happened in the past. C) Sci-fi contains unreal things that could be real in our world in the future. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sci-fi contains unreal things that could be real in our world in the future. 34. How can you tell this selection is historical fiction? A) The setting. B) The conflict. C) The way they dressed. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 35. When and where the story takes place is ..... A) Setting. B) Characters. C) Events. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 36. What is one way we can make our thinking deeper? A) Don't talk to anyone. B) Plant it in the ground. C) Answer questions to push our thinking forward, like in book club. D) Ask other people questions, but don't think about them for ourselves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Answer questions to push our thinking forward, like in book club. 37. The store carried quite a bit of stuff-sugar, flour, dried fruits, canned goods and such on one side. On the other side of the yard, they carried goods, coats, caps, aprons and the like of that on the other. It wasn't a big store like Hirsch Brothers Store up the street. Never would be, people guessed, that it would have gone out of business long ago if Mr. Baumer hadn't let it. He had started the store just two years before and, the way things were, worked himself close to death. He was at the high desk at the end of the grocery counter when I came in the next afternoon. He had his eyeshades on and his pencil was in hand instead of behind his ear and his glasses were roosted on the nose that Slade had twisted. He didn't hear me open and close the door or hear my feet as I walked back to him, and I saw he wasn't doing anything with the pencil but holding it over paper. I stood and studied him for a minute, seeing a small, stooped man with a little belly bulging through his unbuttoned vest. He was a man you wouldn't remember from meeting once. There was nothing in his looks to set itself in your mind unless maybe it was his chin, which was a small hill in the gentle plain of his face. While I watched him, he lifted his hand and ran his fingers along his nose. Then he saw me. His eyes had that kind of tired look that seems to go with age or illness, though he wasn't really old or sick, either. He brought his hand down quickly and picked up the pencil, but then he saw I was still looking at the nose, and finally he sighed and said, "That Slade." Just the sound of the name brought Slade to my eye. I could vision him slouched in front of the bar, and I saw him and his string of horses coming down the road. I could see Slade's whip lifting hair from a horse because it would sting so badly. I had heard people say that Slade could make a horse scream with that whip. What point of view is this story being told? A) First person point of view. B) Third person point of view. C) Omniscient point of view. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person point of view. 38. How do authors use flashbacks in storytelling? A) To help readers understand a character's current situation by showing events that took place at an earlier time. B) To present factual information in a literary context. C) To express personal experiences and opinions on a topic. D) To blend historical facts with fiction to make the story more engaging. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To help readers understand a character's current situation by showing events that took place at an earlier time. 39. In realistic fiction A) The characters behave like real people. B) The setting could exist in real life. C) The events did not happen, but they could. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 40. Which words are synonyms for the words ineffective at in this sentence? The broken vacuum was ineffective at cleaning my floors properly. A) Helpful about. B) Done with. C) Not successful. D) Great at. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not successful. 41. The struggle or drama the characters face A) Problem. B) Plot. C) Character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Problem. 42. What is the definition of adios? A) Good night. B) Hello. C) Good-bye. D) I'm tired. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Good-bye. 43. What is the most important part of historical fiction? A) The story. B) The characters. C) The front cover. D) The setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The setting. 44. Begin every body paragraph with ..... A) Background information. B) A memory. C) A topic sentence. D) An introduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A topic sentence. 45. When deciding whether a story is historical fiction, the most important element to analyze is A) Events. B) Character. C) Setting. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Setting. 46. Imagine Olivia, Isla, and Avery are time-traveling historians. They land in a period of historical fiction. Can you guess which subtopic they've landed in if the story is set during World War II? A) Humorous Fiction. B) Fantasy Fiction. C) War Fiction. D) Science Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) War Fiction. 47. Examples of character traits are: A) Nationality, religion, rebellious, gender, class. B) Shy, religion, introvert, gender, outgoing. C) Nationality, favorite color, race, stubborn, class. D) Outgoing, introvert, stubborn, shy, rebellious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outgoing, introvert, stubborn, shy, rebellious. 48. Fill in the blank:Each character has a backstory and a ..... evolving story. A) Previous. B) Past. C) Current. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Current. 49. "Two out of three high school students fail to get enough sleep" is an example of: A) Evidence. B) Claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Evidence. 50. What was the most popular route used by the pioneers to travel out west? A) California Trail. B) Santa Fe Trail. C) Bozeman Trail. D) Oregon Trail. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oregon Trail. 51. How are all historical fiction stories alike? A) They all have made-up characters. B) They all take place in the future. C) They all have an unbelievable plot. D) They all take place in the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They all take place in the past. 52. If you reinterpret the rules of a game you might A) Play as you always have played the game. B) Ask others about the rules. C) Ignore the rules. D) Play the game in a different way. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Play the game in a different way. 53. It is below freezing outside; you are savoring each moment you are in the cold. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 54. When writing an opinion piece a writer should ..... A) Download an opinion he or she liked. B) Look for evidence to support your opinion. C) Make sure the writing piece is long. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Look for evidence to support your opinion. 55. What descriptive language do authors use to make stories interesting A) Similes and vivid verbs. B) Action words. C) Hyperboles. D) Action verbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Similes and vivid verbs. 56. I think it was cruel to hold the firefly captive in a glass jar. A) Ruler. B) Prisoner. C) Comedian. D) King. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prisoner. 57. What was Victoria's plan to see who was in the attic? A) She was going to keep asking her parents until they told her the truth. B) She was going to lay out the cornhusk doll so the owner would come get it. C) She was going to see if Caleb thought it was a ghost in her attic too. D) She was going to ask her dad because her mom was ignoring her. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was going to lay out the cornhusk doll so the owner would come get it. 58. What are the 5 story elements? A) Character, text features, theme, bold words, setting. B) Character, setting, problem, plot, theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Character, setting, problem, plot, theme. 59. Which is probably HISTORICAL FICTION? A) A story about a talking frog. B) A story about a girl and her best friend. C) A story about someone solving a mystery. D) A story about the sinking of the Titanic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A story about the sinking of the Titanic. 60. What is the INDEFINITE PRONOUN in the following sentence:Out of all the workers, none wanted to volunteer. A) Workers. B) None. C) All. D) Wanted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) None. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesHistorical Fiction Quiz 1Historical Fiction Quiz 2Historical Fiction Quiz 3Historical Fiction Quiz 5Historical Fiction Quiz 6Historical Fiction Quiz 7Historical Fiction Quiz 8Historical Fiction Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books