1st Grade
Who wrote The Cat in the Hat?
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
What contraction is formed by combining the words "do" and "not"?
Don't
In Beverly Cleary's books, what is the name of Ramona Quimby's older sister?
Beatrice (Beezus)
What is the name of the subterranean creature obsessed with "My Precious" in The Hobbit?
Gollum (Sméagol)
In Holes by Louis Sachar, what dangerous reptile threatens the boys digging at Camp Green Lake?
Yellow-Spotted Lizard
What makes up a rhyming pair: words that begin with the same sound or end with the same sound?
End with the same sound
Who wrote Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and The BFG?
Roald Dahl
What type of word connects words, phrases, or clauses (e.g., and, but, or, so)?
Conjunction
In grammar, what is an antecedent?
The noun that a pronoun refers to or replaces
What is the literary term for a character who contrasts directly with the protagonist in order to highlight specific traits (e.g., Draco Malfoy to Harry Potter)?
A foil
In Where the Wild Things Are, what is the name of the boy who sails to the island of monsters?
Max
What do you call a word that means the exact same, or nearly the same, as another word?
Synonym
What is the title of the first book in the Harry Potter series published in the US?
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
What Newbery Medal-winning novel by Katherine Paterson tells the story of Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke creating an imaginary kingdom?
Bridge to Terabithia
What punctuation mark can connect two closely related independent clauses without using a coordinating conjunction?
Semicolon
What is the plural form of the word "child"?
Children
What creature is Aslan in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia?
A lion
What figure of speech compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"?
Simile
What punctuation mark is used to separate items in a series or separate two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction?
Comma
Who wrote the 1967 coming-of-age novel The Outsiders at just 16 years old?
S.E. Hinton (Susan Eloise Hinton)
What colour is the mischievous monkey Curious George's friend's hat?
Yellow (The Man with the Yellow Hat)
Identify the past-tense verb in: Yesterday, she wrote a mystery chapter.
Wrote
In The Tale of Despereaux, what type of creature is Despereaux?
A mouse
In A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, what is the term for the fifth-dimensional folding of space that allows travel across the universe?
Tesseract (tessering)
Identify the difference between third-person limited and third-person omniscient point of view.
Limited follows the thoughts/feelings of only one character; Omniscient is all-knowing and sees into the thoughts of multiple characters