Video Quiz 1

Note: Two on-camera Video Quizzes are presented after the closing credits for the video.

Quiz 1 is for younger students; Quiz 2 is for older students. Please make as many copies as needed for class use.

1. As a review, name the five friends of good writing--the five W's.

2. What was the lesson Tom learned?

3. Who is buried in Grant's tomb?

1. As a review, write down the five W's.

2. What are the five W's of the graveyard scene?
   • a. Who are the characters?
   • b. What is the situation or the action?
   • c. When does the action occur?
   • d. Where is this taking place (the setting)?
   • e. Why is there a conflict? Why is this happening?

3. a. Define personification.

   b. Underline a personification in this excerpt from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

   A faint wind moaned through the trees, and Tom feared it might be the spirits of the dead, complaining at being disturbed. The boys talked little, and only under their breath, for the time and the place and the pervading solemnity and silence oppressed their spirits.

4. a. Define metaphor.

   b. Underline a metaphor in this excerpt from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

   He was boat and captain and engine-bells combined, so he had to imagine himself standing on his own hurricane-deck giving the orders and executing them...

5. a. Define onomatopoeia.

   b. Underline the onomatopoeia in the following section.

   "Set her back on the stabboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow! ch-chow-wow! Chow!" His right hand, meantime, describing stately circles--for it was representing a forty-foot wheel.

6. What was the life lesson Tom learned in the graveyard scene and why is it important?

7. Who is buried in Grant's tomb?

1. Who, What, When, Where, and Why.
2. Tom learned to be truthful.
3. Ulysses S. Grant (note that this type of humorous question is in character for Mark Twain).

1. Who, What, When, Where, and Why
2. a. Who-The characters are Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Injun Joe, Muff Potter and Doc Robinson.
   b. What-In this situation, Tom and Huck are in the graveyard to get rid of warts using an old dead cat. Injun Joe, Muff Potter and Doc Robinson are in the graveyard to rob a grave.
   c. When-The action occurs in the middle of the night.
   d. Where-This is taking place in a graveyard.
   e. Why-There is a conflict because Injun Joe has an old score to settle with Doc Robinson. As a result, he murders the doctor. There is also a conflict with Tom and Huck because they have a terrible secret that can solve a murder.
3. a. Personification is a figure of speech in which a lifeless object or a quality is spoken of as if alive.
   b. A faint wind moaned through the trees . . .
4. a. A metaphor is a figure of speech which implies likeness by speaking of one thing as if it were another thing.
   b. He was boat and captain and engine-bells combined . . .
5. a. Onomatopoeia is a figure of speech using words or sentences whose sound suggests the sense of those words or sentences.
   b. . . . Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow! ch-chow-wow! Chow! . . .
6. Tom learned to be truthful. Telling the truth is always important.
7. Ulysses S. Grant (note that this type of humorous question is in character for Mark Twain).