The Season of Styx Malone

Characters

100

This character was the narrator of the story

1. Styx

2. Cory

3. Caleb

3. Caleb

200

This character was normally a dutiful rule-follower

1. Caleb

2. Styx

3. Bobby Gene

3. Bobby Gene

300

This character was moved by DCS

1. Pixie

2. Susie

3. Cory

1. Pixie

400

This character owned the shop that sold the Grasshopper

1. Mr. Davis

2. Mr. Pike

3. Mr. Franklin

1. Mr. Davis

500

This character was traded for a bag of fireworks

1. Pixie

2. Susie

3. Cory

2. Susie

Setting

100

The story took place in this city

1. Pawnee

2. Sutton

3. Eagleton

2. Sutton

200

The story takes place during which season?

1. Spring

2. Fall

3. Summer

3. Summer

300

This big city was where Caleb and Bobby Gene's dad was from

1. Chicago

2. Indianapolis

3. Minneapolis

2. Indianapolis

400

This path to Styx's house went through which of these

1. The woods

2. The junkyard

3. The corn field

1. The woods

500

This location was called "Styx's Office"

1. The big tree

2. The backyard

3. The pond

1. The big tree

Vocabulary

100

This word means "not valued highly enough"

1. Underrated

2. Dissatisfied

3. Gulf

1. Underrated

200

This word means "impossible to pass through"

1. Mirage

2. Mangled

3. Impenetrable

3. Impenetrable

300

This word means "a though or feeling that things will turn out well"

1. Optimism

2. Stalemate

3. Antonym

1. Optimism

400

This word means "not pleased"

1. Leverage

2. Exhilarating

3. Dissatisfied

3. Dissatisfied

500

This word means "a person who helps to settle a disagreement"

1. Minor

2. Mediator

3. Proceeds

2. Mediator

Literary Tools

100

Figurative language that makes a comparison using "like" or "as"

1. Simile

2. Idiom

3. Imagery

1. Simile

200

Which of these events was the climax of the story?

1. Styx, Caleb, and Bobby Gene bought the grasshopper

2. Styx got hit by a truck but did not die

3. Caleb and Bobby Gene traded their sister for some fireworks

2. Styx got hit by a truck but did not die

300

A tool that authors use to give a hint about what will happen later in the story

1. Metaphor

2. Hyperbole

3. Foreshadowing 

3. Foreshadowing

400

Figurative language that helps a reader imagine how something looks, smells, feels, or tastes

1. Inference

2. Imagery

3. Metaphor

2. Imagery

500

The attitude or feeling of a piece of writing

1. Theme

2. Tone

3. Inference

2. Tone

Language

100

Which set of pronouns are in the 1st person?

1. He, she, it

2. You, y'all

3. I, me, we

3. I, me, we

200

Which example is in the past progressive tense?

1. I went to the museum

2. I was going to the museum

3. I wanted to go to the museum

2. I was going to the museum

300

Which of these phrases is an example of an idiom?

1. I like turtles

2. Beat around the bush

3. Hippopotamus

2. Beat around the bush

400

Which type of sentence is this:

"Oh my blueberries, that's crazy!"

1. Exclamatory

2. Declarative

3. Interrogative

1. Exclamatory

500

These phrases can be used to show time, space, and movement using words like "before" or "with"

1. Narrator phrases

2. Foreshadowing phrases

3. Prepositional phrases

3. Prepositional phrases