Direction: Write the letter that corresponds to your answer.

1. A story written about another person’s life, is what type of nonfiction?

a. Autobiography b. biography c. essay d. exposition e. informal article
2. A story that just explains on a topic is what kind of nonfiction?
a. Autobiography b. biography c. essay d. exposition e. informal article
3. A story that explains someone’s opinion on a topic is what kind of nonfiction?
a. Autobiography b. biography c. essay d. exposition e. informal article
4. A story that someone wrote about their life is what kind of nonfiction?
a. Autobiography b. biography c. essay d. exposition e. informal article
5. A story about a person named Johnson Jackson and what his life is about would be, what kind of
nonfiction?
a. Autobiography b. biography c. essay d. exposition e. informal article
6. Before you write a nonfiction what you need to do?
a. Eat a good lunch c. Research your topic e. Take a test
b. Read a good book d. Take a test
7. Before you write a nonfiction what you need to do?
a. Eat a good lunch c. Research your topic
b. Read a good book d. Take a test
1. True or false: Information articles contain opinion
a. True b. false
2. A diary is what type of nonfiction?
a. Autobiography b. biography c. essay d. exposition e. informal article
8. Which of these words could not be used to be described the tone of a text?
a. Humorous b. Passionate c. Serious d. Useful e. Sarcastic
9. A type of nonfiction writing that includes personal thoughts and reflections
a. Autobiography b. Biography c. Expository d. Memoir e. Reflection essay
10. What kind of nonfiction do most people read daily in the newspaper?
a. Autobiography b. biography c. essay d. exposition e. informal article
11. What type of nonfiction would be describing a historic event?
a. Autobiography b. biography c. essay d. exposition e. informal article
12. In any nonfiction text, an anecdote is best described as ___
a. A definition of a key word c. extra details about the story
b. A short story to prove a point d. the main idea
13. This pattern of writing shows the order in events occurred
a. Categorical b. chronological c. compare and contrast d. expository
14. Writing that presents facts and ideas, or explains process
a. Expository b. narrative c. persuasive d. reflective
15. In any nonfiction text, which of the following is not a type of supporting detail?
a. Anecdotes b. bulleted lists c. facts d. quotations
16. A type of nonfiction writing includes personal thoughts and reflections
a. Autobiography b. biography c. expository d. memoir
17. Any short work of nonfiction appearing as a part of a magazine, newspaper, or book.
a. Article b. blog c. diary d. novel
18. Which of the following is not an example of a nonfiction text?
a. A history book b. a poem c. a travel book d. an autobiography
19. An autobiography ___
a. Gives a description of a topic c. writer tells someone else’s story
b. Writer tell his own story d. writing that is not true
20. Informal nonfiction means ___
a. Intent of informing the reader about a topic
b. Original materials that have not been altered
c. Writer tries to convince the reader
d. Writing that is not true
21. Author’s purpose means ___
a. Author tells life story of someone else
b. Original materials that have not been altered
c. reason for which the author writes
d. short form of literary composition
22. Literary nonfiction ___
a. Gives description of particular event
b. Short form of literary composition
c. uses literary styles to create a factually accurate narrative
d. writer tells his own story
23. Biography ___
a. Short form of literary composition c. writer tells someone else’s life
b. writer tells his own story d. writing gives explanation of ideas
24. A story written about another person’s life, is what type of nonfiction?
a. Autobiography c. essay e. exposition
b. biography d. informational article
27. A story that just explains information on a topic is what kind of nonfiction?
a. Autobiography c. essay e. exposition
b. biography d. informational article
28. A story that explains someone’s opinion on a topic is what kind of nonfiction?
a. Autobiography c. essay e. exposition
b. biography d. informational article
29. A story that someone wrote about their life is what kind of nonfiction?
a. Autobiography c. essay e. exposition
b. biography d. informational article
30. A story about a person named Jason Cruz and what his life about written by someone else would be
what kind of nonfiction?
a. Autobiography c. essay e. exposition
b. biography d. informational article
31. What kind of nonfiction do most people read daily in the newspaper?
a. Autobiography c. essay e. exposition
b. biography d. informational article
32. Informational articles contain opinion
a. true b. false
33. Who is the narrator of an autobiography?
a. a relative b. another author c. the author d. unknown admirer
34. Which of the following summaries could describe an autobiography?
a. a famous basketball player’s wife sharing memories of her late husband
b. a famous writer’s life told by another author
c. Helen Keller writing about her difficulties of being blind all her life
d. Michael Jackson’s mother describing his childhood
35. A biography describes ___
a. the birth of an individual’s children
b. the childhood experiences, family, and career of an individual
c. individual’s hobbies and career of an individual
d. the mistakes one has made in life
36. Diaries, letters, and journals are largely imaginative and therefore unworthy as sources of
information on period of history
a. true b. false

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas (an excerpt)

By Frederick Douglas
I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve mile from Easton, in
Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen an
authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages
as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep
their slaves thus ignorant. I do not remember to have ever met a slave could tell of his
birthday. The seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvest-time, cherry-time, spring-
time, or fall-time. A want for information concerning my own was source of unhappiness to
me even during childhood. The white children could tell their ages. I could not tell why I
ought to be deprived of the same privilege. I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my
master concerning it. He deemed all such inquiries on the part of a slave improper and
impertinent, and evidence of a restless spirit. The nearest estimate I can give makes me
now between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age. I come to this, from hearing my
master say, sometime during 1835, I was about seventeen years old.

37. Which of the following can you infer from the excerpt?
a. the writer is 17 years old c. the writer is slave e. the writer as born on Jan.12, 1835
b. the writer is a plantation owner d. the writer is white
38. What does the writer say was a source of unhappiness to him as a child?
a. having to work on a farm
b. living in a large city
c. living in poverty
d. not knowing his age like the white children did
e. working long hours when other children did not have to do so
39. What does the excerpt imply about the way masters viewed their slaves?
a. masters wanted to free their slaves
b. the masters tried to keep slave families together
c. they kept careful records about their slaves
d. they wanted them to learn to read and write
40. A narrative of a person’s life, a true story about a real person.
a. biography b. autobiography c. nonfiction d. text features
41. A history of a person’s life written by that person
a. biography b. autobiography c. nonfiction d. text features
42. Informational text dealing with an actual, real life subject
a. biography b. autobiography c. nonfiction d. text features
43. Tools of reading nonfiction
a. biography b. autobiography c. nonfiction d. text features
44. A form of communication in spoken language, made by a speaker before an audience
a. narrative b. expository c. italics d. speech
45. A story or account of events, experiences, or like, can be true or fictitious
a. biography b. autobiography c. nonfiction d. text features
46. Of the nature of exposition; serving to expound, set forth, or explain
a. biography b. autobiography c. nonfiction d. text features
47. A style of printing types which the letters slope to the right.
a. biography b. autobiography c. nonfiction d. text features
48. It is similar to the personal essay in that it also deals with a topic that affects the reader.
a. lyric essay b. reflective essay c. personal essay d. true narrative
49. It is a true story, with plot, action, suspense characters and setting which delivers a theme.
a. lyric essay b. reflective essay c. personal essay d. true narrative
50.A piece of writing, usually in the first person, that focuses on a topic through the lens of personal
experience of the narrator.
a. lyric essay b. reflective essay c. personal essay d. true narrative