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The Monkey's Paw Pretest
Instructions: For each question, choose the single best answer. Make your choice by clicking on its button. You can change your answers at any time. When the quiz is graded, the correct answers will appear in the box after each question.
1. Mrs. White's dramatic second wish, an attempt to undo the first, continues to fuel the reader's interest in the outcome of the story.
a. setting
b. rising action
c. climax
2. Morris tells of the spell placed on the monkey's paw and the fakir's intention in granting three men three wishes.
a. exposition
b. setting
c. irony
3. The setting includes all but________.
a. cold weather
b. bright fire
c. castle
4. What was the third wish of the first owner?
a. money
b. death
c. good health
5. Sergeant Major Morris was ________.
a. an old soldier
b. Mr. White's brother
c. the sheriff
6. The first owner's wish for death is an example of_______.
a. climax
b. personification
c. irony
7. White's snatching the paw from the fire is an arresting moment that heightens the story's suspense and bodes ill is the ___________.
a. setting
b. narrative hook
c. resolution
8. White learns that when the wishes are granted it may seem more like coincidence than fate demonstrates _______.
a. theme
b. plot
c. resolution
9. The death of the son is an additional, crucial complication of the plot, and the reader follows the story with increasing interest. This is the ____
a. theme
b. resolution
c. rising action
10. The knocking stops and when the door is opened, no one is there. The reader is left to determine the _______.
a. climax
b. resolution
c. theme
11. The _______ of the story occurs when the mother hears the knock, rushes to the door.
a. climax
b. resolution
c. end
12. The story is told in ______ point of view.
a. first person
b. 2nd person
c. 3rd person omniscient
13. Mrs. White makes the second wish for_____.
a. money
b. her son to come back to life
c. another child
14. Mr. White made the last wish _____ finding out whether the 2nd wish had been granted.
a. before
b. after
c. while
15. Mr. White's third wish and the first owners third wish were _______.
a. different
b. opposite
c. the same
16. Sergeant Morris _______ their fate by telling them the first owners last wish.
a. evaluates
b. foreshadows
c. climax
17. ______is the set of events that bring the story to a close.
a. complication
b. exposition
c. resolution
18. _____is the turning point in the story that occurs when characters try to resolve the problem.
a. climax
b. resolution
c. narrative hook
19. Information needed to understand the story is in the _________.
a. climax
b. rising action
c. exposition
20. When we reach the point where the story captures our interest we're at the _________.
a. narrative hook
b. exposition
c. climax.

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