Grammar Multiple Choice
What part of speech is will in the following sentence?
Do you think he will come to practice today?
Verb
Describe Guy Montag’s job.
He is a fireman. He finds books and burns them.
What was the relationship between Scrooge and Marley?
Business partners
What is a Sentence?
A Group of words that expresses a complete thought.
What were the parlor walls?
They were a kind of surround television with which the audience could interact.
What part of speech is friend in the following sentence?
I have a friend who lives next door to me.
Noun
What happened to Mildred, Montag’s wife, at the beginning of the novel?
She took an overdose of sleeping pills and had to have her stomach and blood pumped clean.
Scrooge thought that poor people should…
Go to prisons and workhouses... or die!
What is a Verb?
Tells what the subject is or does.
What does the Ghost of Christmas Present show Scrooge?
The home of Bob Cratchit, with his struggling family and his sick child.
The home of his nephew, Fred, and the truth of what he and his friends think of Scrooge.
What part of speech is tiny in the following sentence?
The tiny puppy jumped around.
Adjective
What did Captain Beatty believe?
He believed that books put upsetting thoughts in people's minds and kept them from being happy and satisfied.
Marley’s ghost told Scrooge that he would be visited by three spirits. Without their visits, …
Scrooge would never change, and therefore, was doomed to the same fate as Marley.
What is an Imperative Sentence?
A sentence that gives a command.
What did the old woman do when her apartment was raided by the firemen and she was found to own books?
She lit the match and burned with her books.
What part of speech is very in the following sentence?
I walked very slowly.
Adverb
What happened to Captain Beatty?
He was killed by Montag after taunting him and attempting to arrest him.
After seeing the Christmas party hosted by his old boss, Fezziwig, what did Scrooge realize?
Employers have the power to make their employees happy, but Scrooge has chosen instead to mistreat his clerk.
What is an Adverb?
A word that describes/modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb.
What do the two ghost children with Christmas Present represent?
Ignorance and Want.
What part of speech is any in the following sentence?
Do you have paper? I don’t seem to have any.
Pronoun
What was different about the homeless men Montag met?
They were all intellectuals who valued literature.
Belle didn’t marry Scrooge because she...
Knew he cared more about money than her.
What is a Helping Verb?
It Helps the main verb by expressing a tense or condition.
Ray Bradbury opens the novel with a description of books: “… the flapping, pigeon winged books died on the porch…” What writing technique is he using here?
Personification