10th Grade Tone & Style Quizzes, Questions & Answers
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This Tone MC Questions quiz assesses the ability to identify the tone in various literary excerpts. It helps learners understand authorial tone and mood, enhancing their literary analysis skills.
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 795 | Last updated: Jan 16, 2025
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Sample Question 1"There were always children there, and I spent all my time with the children, only with the children. They were the children of the village where I lived, a whole gang of them, who went to the local school. I was simply with them mostly, and I spent all my four years like that. I did not want anything else." (from The Idiot, Dostoyevsky)
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Sample Question 2Time passed. Susan waited. The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone. She looked at her watch. She felt that now was about the time that she could legitimately begin to feel cross. She was cross already, of course, but that had been in her own time, so to speak. They were well and truly into his time now, and even allowing for traffic, mishaps, and general vagueness and dilatoriness, it was now well over half an hour past the time that he had insisted was the latest time they could possibly afford to leave, so she'd better be ready. (from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams)
Carefully read each passage and decide which answer best describe the tone, correct dialogue, or alludes to a historical event, the bible, or a mythological figure.
Questions: 17 | Attempts: 464 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025
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Sample Question 1Passage #1 “I shall throw you on a black ship and send you to the mainland, To King Echetos, destroyer of all mortal men, Who will cut off your nostrils with a sharp bronze sword; He will tear of your private parts and give them to the dogs to eat raw.” --Homer, The Odyssey Which word best describes the tone? In other words, how does the speaker feel about/toward the subject?
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Sample Question 2Passage #2 “There were always children there, and I spent all my time with the children, only with the children. They were the children of the village where I lived, a whole gang of them who went to the local school. I was simply with them mostly, and I spent all my four years like that. I did not want anything else.” --Dostoyevsky, The Idiot Which word best describes the tone? In other words, how does the speaker feel about/toward the subject?
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This quiz will give you a chance to practice proficiency-like multiple choice questions dealing with tone and mood.
Questions: 12 | Attempts: 2667 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025
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Sample QuestionPassage #1 “I shall throw you on a black ship and send you to the mainland, To King Echetos, destroyer of all mortal men, Who will cut off your nostrils with a sharp bronze sword; He will tear of your private parts and give them to the dogs to eat raw.” --Homer, The Odyssey Which word best describes the tone? In other words, how does the speaker feel about/toward the subject?
For each opening line, select the title of the work it corresponds to by circling the letter next to it. When finished, return a printed copy of your completed quiz to the reference desk. Patrons may only take each quiz...
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 65 | Last updated: Jun 22, 2025
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Sample QuestionOn they went, singing 'Rest Eternal', and whenever they stopped, the sound of their feet, the horses and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing.
This quiz involves the style utilized by Yann Martel in his novel, "Life of Pi."
Questions: 5 | Attempts: 454 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025
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Sample Question“All about me was flatness and infinity, an endless panorama of blue. There was nothing to block my view. The vastness hit me like a punch in the stomach. I fell back, winded. This raft was a joke. It was nothing but a few sticks and a little cork held together by string. Water came through every crack. The depth beneath would make a bird dizzy. I caught sight off the lifeboat. It was no better than half a walnut shell. It held on to the surface of the water like finders gripping the edge of a cliff. It was only a matter time before gravity pulled it down (160).” All of the following choices are examples of figurative language EXCEPT
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