Are You Smarter Than a 6th Grader?

Are you smarter than a 6^th grader?

Time to break up the blog entries with a fun quiz.

Answers are at the end….No cheating!

1.     What three parts of speech does an adverb modify?

a)     past, present, future    

b)    noun, pronoun, proper noun

c)     verb, adjective, adverb

d)    verb, pronoun, adjective

2.     Which is an example of personification?

a)     The flashlight was as bright as the sun.

b)    On this night the moon spoke to me.

c)     Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

d)    The delicious potato chips were crunchy.

3.     Roses are red

Violets are blue

This poem is old

And so are you!

This poem is written with what pattern?

a)     ABCD

b)    ABAB

c)     AABB

d)    ABCB

4.     How many mistakes are in this sentence?

You’re mother should of taken alot of pitchers with her camera becuase its knew.

a)     4

b)    5

c)     6

d)    7

5.     Where did the 12 greatest gods and goddesses live?

a)     Zeus Mountain

b)    Mt. Vesuvius

c)     Mt. Whitney

d)    Mount Olympus

6.     How many pronouns are in the following sentence?

I went with Mary to get her car but it was not where she thought it would be so she asked the neighbors if they moved it.

a)     4

b)    6

c)     8

d)    10

7.     What is foreshadowing?

a)     When an author gives a hint that something may happen later in the story

b)    When an author leaves you in suspense at the end of a chapter

c)     When an author gives a false clue to throw you off the trail

d)    When an author gives dark details which make you sad

8.     What does genre mean?

a)     A poem that does not rhyme

b)    A kind of literary work

c)     The male main character in a book

d)    The evil character in a book

9.     How many syllables are in a Haiku poem?

a)     17

b)    25

c)     11

d)    It does not have a specified number of syllables.

10.  Which sentence is correct?

a)     The boy’s hat was left on his friends car.

b)    The boys hat was left on his friend’s car.

c)     The boy’s hat was left on his friend’s car.

d)    The boys hat was left on his friends car.

Scroll down for the answers.

ANSWERS: 

1.  c

2.  b

3.  d

4.  d  - Your mother should have taken a lot of pictures with her camera because it’s new.

5.  d

6.  c  -  I went with Mary to get her car but it was not where she thought it would be so she asked the neighbors if they moved it.

7.  a

8.  b

9.  a

10. c

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