1. Q4-1 (5.0 points)
Description is essential to reader engagement.
*a. True
b. False
2. Q4-2 (5.0 points)
"America's Pastime" provides a description of a football game.
a. True
*b. False
3. Q4-3 (5.0 points)
The descriptive essay you will write should describe at least
three different places.
a. True
*b. False
4. Q4-4 (5.0 points)
A descriptive essay often uses spatial order.
*a. True
b. False
5. Q4-5 (5.0 points)
Sensory details are descriptions that explain theme in a
narrative.
a. True
*b. False
6. Q4-6 (5.0 points)
"Hiding in Plain Sight" is a story of a girl who was abducted and
held by a next door neighbor.
a. True
*b. False
7. Q4-7 (5.0 points)
Children often report freely and unedited about their
environments.
*a. True
b. False
8. Q4-8 (5.0 points)
In a descriptive essay, telling the audience what happens is your
goal.
a. True
*b. False
9. Q4-9 (5.0 points)
"Click" and "clank" are examples of sensory detail.
*a. True
b. False
10. Q4-10 (5.0 points)
Reader confusion is just part of reading descriptive writing.
a. True
*b. False
11. Q4-11 (5.0 points)
In "America's Pastime" the author uses _______________ verbs
throughout the essay to make the subjects perform in the
sentences.
a. passive
b. active
*c. action
d. linking
12. Q4-12 (5.0 points)
What can help a reader "hear" what is going on in a descriptive
scene?
*a. dialogue
b. conflict
c. theme
d. plot
13. Q4-13 (5.0 points)
Which example breathes life into a situation?
a. "I made tea."
*b. "Yawning, I filled the kettle with fresh water."
14. Q4-14 (5.0 points)
Spatial order is a method of organization that
a. arranges ideas according to time.
*b. arranges ideas according to physical characteristics or
appearance.
c. arranges ideas according to their significance.
d. arranges ideas in no particular order.
15. Q4-15 (5.0 points)
Sensory details appeal to our sense of
*a. sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch
b. well being
c. sight, sound, smell, taste, and order
d. sight, sound, ethics, taste, and touch
16. Q4-16 (5.0 points)
Descriptive essays can describe
a. a person
b. a place
c. an object
*d. all of the above
17. Q4-17 (5.0 points)
Your descriptive essay assignment will focus on a singular
a. person
*b. place
c. object
d. all of the above
18. Q4-18 (5.0 points)
In "Hiding in Plain Sight," what is the author's attitude about
her subject?
a. bitter
*b. cautionary
c. elated
d. ecstatic
19. Q4-19 (5.0 points)
The "Hiding in Plain Sight" the author's attitude toward her
subject is best described in which quotation?
*a. "Garbage graveyards are sequestered, guarded, veiled"
b. "The young girl's abduction made the town afraid"
c. "GROW is a landfill"
d. "When the girl left her hiding place, she was not sure
how to contact the authorities"
20. Q4-20 (5.0 points)
Once you have a place in mind for a descriptive essay, you can
a. record dialogue to get a sense of things you hear.
b. survey the things that surround the place.
c. think about how you would want someone else to
experience the place.
*d. all of the above.*