Short Story Unit Test

Part One: Authors and Titles

Students will be asked to match each author with the title of the story he/she wrote.

Part Two: Identifying Quotations

Students will write the title of the corresponding story from which each of the eleven quotations was taken.

Part Three: Literary Terms

Students will answer multiple choice questions that require the student to apply selected literary terms from this unit to the stories studied, e.g. Who is the protagonist of "The Most Dangerous Game"?

Part Four: Plot Line

Students will identify the six parts of plot on a diagram. They will need to write out these terms in the correct location from memory.

Part Five: Indirect and Direct Characterization

Students will match the letter of a passage from one of the stories studied that best illustrates each of the indirect characterization techniques (appearance, character's speech, character's actions, or other character's speech).

They will be asked to pick out the passage that uses direct characterization from a set of four passages that all describe the same character from a selected story from this unit.

Part Six: Elements of Setting

Students will write out the names of each of the five elements of setting.

Part Seven: Connecting Elements of Setting and Stories

Students will be given a specific pieces of information from the stories studied in this unit. For each piece of information, they will be asked to identify which element of setting the information is and the title of the story from which it comes.

Part Eight: The Function of Setting in a Story

Students will be asked to select one of the stories from the unit, describe a specific setting detail from that story, identify the name of the setting element of that detail, identify the function this setting element plays in the selected story (propels the plot, creates a mood, acts as a symbol), and then explain in three to five sentences how that detail plays the role they have selected in the story they have chosen to discuss.

Part Nine: Point of View

Students will be given four different passages. They will need to identify the point of view of each passage (first person, second person, third person limited, third person omniscient)

Part Ten: Theme

Students will discuss in a short paragraph the theme/moral of one of the stories from the unit. They will state a theme/moral from the selected story, making clear whether the statement is a theme or a moral. They will state whether the theme/moral is explicitly stated in the story or implied. They will describe the story's central conflict and its resolution and how these reveal the theme or moral.