Comparing Setting Perspective Quiz: Authors Craft

1. What theme is shared by both stories?

Freedom brings happiness.

Change can lead to growth.

Each place has its own kind of beauty.

The city is better than the country.

Both stories show appreciation for different environments — city and country — each with its own beauty.

Explanation

Both stories show appreciation for different environments — city and country — each with its own beauty.

2. How does each author present the theme differently?

The city story shows peace; the country story shows noise.

The city story shows appreciation through busyness; the country story shows appreciation through calm.

Both stories describe the same setting.

Both focus only on loneliness.

The authors use opposite settings and tones to show that beauty can exist in both chaos and quiet.

Explanation

The authors use opposite settings and tones to show that beauty can exist in both chaos and quiet.

3. Which sentence from Passage A best shows the sparrow’s point of view about the city?

“The wind rushed between cars and wings.”

“The sparrow sighed for a quiet nest.”

“The lights sparkled like stars on the ground.”

“It dreamed of trees far away.”

The sparrow sees beauty in the lights — this reflects a positive city viewpoint.

Explanation

The sparrow sees beauty in the lights — this reflects a positive city viewpoint.

4. Which sentence from Passage B shows the country sparrow’s perspective?

“It fluttered above golden grass and hummed to the sky.”

“The city lights called from far away.”

“Cars rumbled in its dreams.”

“It perched on a bridge post.”

This shows the sparrow’s peaceful appreciation of nature in the countryside.

Explanation

This shows the sparrow’s peaceful appreciation of nature in the countryside.

5. Both sparrows are completely content in their environments.

True

False

Each appreciates where it lives but also longs for what the other has.

Explanation

Each appreciates where it lives but also longs for what the other has.

6. What contrast in tone can be seen between the two passages?

The city tone is energetic; the country tone is calm.

The city tone is gloomy; the country tone is scary.

Both are angry.

Both are humorous.

The author of Passage A uses lively imagery; Passage B uses peaceful, reflective language.

Explanation

The author of Passage A uses lively imagery; Passage B uses peaceful, reflective language.

7. How are the points of view in both passages similar?

Both are told from the sparrow’s perspective.

Both are told from a human narrator’s view.

Both are written in second person.

One is a poem, and one is an essay.

Each uses a sparrow’s thoughts to reveal its world, creating empathy and reflection.

Explanation

Each uses a sparrow’s thoughts to reveal its world, creating empathy and reflection.

8. The authors use opposite settings to teach the same lesson.

True

False

City and country life symbolize different paths to the same theme — appreciation of beauty.

Explanation

City and country life symbolize different paths to the same theme — appreciation of beauty.

9. Which statement best compares the use of imagery?

Passage A uses city lights; Passage B uses open skies.

Both describe dark caves.

Passage A uses no imagery.

Passage B focuses only on sound.

Both use imagery suited to their settings to highlight contrast.

Explanation

Both use imagery suited to their settings to highlight contrast.

10. How do both authors show that the sparrows feel connected to their environments?

Through dialogue with humans.

Through descriptive sensory details.

Through direct explanations of emotion.

Through humor.

Descriptions of sound, color, and motion reveal connection to setting.

Explanation

Descriptions of sound, color, and motion reveal connection to setting.

11. Which statement best summarizes the comparison?

Both sparrows feel trapped by their surroundings.

Each sparrow learns that its own world is valuable, even if it’s different.

The country sparrow moves to the city.

Both sparrows wish to leave their homes forever.

Each story celebrates contentment and understanding through contrast.

Explanation

Each story celebrates contentment and understanding through contrast.

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13. Match the story to its tone.

The City Sparrow

The Country Sparrow

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Comparing Setting and Perspective

1. What theme is shared by both stories?

2. How does each author present the theme differently?

3. Which sentence from Passage A best shows the sparrow’s point of view about the city?

4. Which sentence from Passage B shows the country sparrow’s perspective?

5. Both sparrows are completely content in their environments.

6. What contrast in tone can be seen between the two passages?

7. How are the points of view in both passages similar?

8. The authors use opposite settings to teach the same lesson.

9. Which statement best compares the use of imagery?

10. How do both authors show that the sparrows feel connected to their environments?

11. Which statement best summarizes the comparison?

12. The city sparrow finds beauty in movement, while the country sparrow finds beauty in _____.

13. Match the story to its tone.

14. Both sparrows express curiosity about the _____ around them.

15. Both passages show that finding beauty depends on one's _____.