This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Genres – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Genres Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which genre is a story that teaches a lesson about people? A) Fable. B) Folktale. C) Legend. D) Tall Tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fable. 2. A story that attempts to explain basic question about the world usually contains gods & goddesses A) Folktale. B) Myth. C) Verse. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Myth. 3. Narrative work in which a story is told using a comic form. A) Manga. B) Digi-Fiction. C) Graphic Novel. D) Illustrated Novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Graphic Novel. 4. The "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens is an example of a ..... A) Fiction. B) Non-fiction. C) Drama. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fiction. 5. Narrative literary works whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact. A) Mystery. B) Drama. C) Fable. D) Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fiction. 6. A literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact. A) Poetry. B) Drama. C) Fiction. D) Non-Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fiction. 7. What do you call a short composition where the author gives his/her opinion or writes a report on a topic ..... and is something you might write in English class? A) Memoir. B) Essay. C) Biography. D) Real fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Essay. 8. Which TYPE of literature if fake and imagined by the author? A) Fiction. B) Nonfiction. C) Poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fiction. 9. Ready for a chuckle? Can you tell me which genre is all about tickling your funny bone? A) Mystery. B) Fantasy. C) Comedy. D) Adventure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comedy. 10. What is a play for theater, radio, or television that tells a story? A) Poetry. B) Drama. C) Fairy Tales. D) Tall Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drama. 11. Which are the four main Literary Genres? A) Argument, poetry, characters, setting. B) Historical fiction, characters, setting, plot. C) Drama, fiction, non-fiction, poetry. D) Tragedy, comedy, mystery, fantasy,. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drama, fiction, non-fiction, poetry. 12. With a printed version, what can be used to do a research project on whales? A) Atlas. B) Almanac. C) Encyclopedia. D) Dictionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Encyclopedia. 13. The author writes something from their imagination and for the reader's enjoyment A) Describe. B) Persuade. C) Entertain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Entertain. 14. Your teacher asked you to read and critique a story about the journey in the space of a 21st century kid. What is the literary genre of the story? A) Blog. B) Flash fiction. C) Scifi. D) Chick lit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scifi. 15. A type of fantasy that uses science and technology (robots, time machines, etc.) A) Romance. B) Science fiction. C) Fantasy. D) Mystery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Science fiction. 16. Define literature A) Of literary. B) Anything that we read. C) A group of authors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anything that we read. 17. Far away from here, following the Jade River, there was once a black mountain that cut into the sky like a jagged piece of rough material. The villagers called it Fruitless Mountain because nothing grew on it and birds and animals did not rest there.This is an example of: A) Poetry. B) Story. C) Drama. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Story. 18. What is a story that could happen in real life, but the plot and characters are fictional? A) Realistic Fiction. B) Adventure. C) Science Fiction. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Realistic Fiction. 19. A type of folk tale, short in length, talking animals with clear character traits, teachers a moral or lesson A) People talk. B) Fable. C) Legend. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fable. 20. You want to find another word for "big" . A) Atlas. B) Encyclopedia. C) Dictionary. D) Thesaurus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thesaurus. Next →Related QuizzesLiterary Genres Quiz 2Literary Genres Quiz 3Literary Genres Quiz 4Literary Genres Quiz 5Literary Genres Quiz 6Literary Genres Quiz 7Literary Genres Quiz 8Literary Genres Quiz 9Literary Genres Quiz 10Literary Genres Quiz 11 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books