This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Overview > 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 QuizzesIntroductions 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 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books