Vocabulary Quiz for Grade 9 Students

1. Series of related events moving from a problem to a solution.

o A. Exposition
o B. Conflict
o C. Climax
o D. Plot
o E. Resolution

 
2. Presents the characters and the situation, including the conflict.

o A. Plot
o B. Exposition
o C. Conflict
o D. Complications
o E. Resolution

 3. The source of tension in a story is the struggle between opposing forces.

o A. Plot
o B. Exposition
o C. Conflict
o D. Flimsy
o E. Interminable

 4. The turning point of conflict.

o A. Climax
o B. Plot
o C. Exposition
o D. Queue
o E. Obsidian

 5. Shows how the problems are worked out.

o A. Surmised
o B. Resolution
o C. Climax
o D. Plot
o E. Conflict

 6. Events that stand in the way of resolving the conflict.

 o A. Complications
o B. Plot
o C. Climax
o D. Resolution
o E. Flicker

 7. Intricate; twisted

o A. Grimace
o B. Reveling
o C. Convoluted
o D. Deftness
o E. Interminable

 8. Seemingly endless

o A. Interminable
o B. Convoluted
o C. Grimace
o D. Reveling
o E. Imperceptibly

 9. A twisted facial expression.

o A. Reveling
o B. Grimace
o C. Deftness
o D. Obsidian
o E. Expended

 10. Taking great pleasure in.

o A. Mesas
o B. Jerked
o C. Reveling
o D. Grimace
o E. Convoluted

 11. Skillfulness

o A. Deftness
o B. Flimsy
o C. Plot
o D. Complications
o E. Convoluted
 12. In such a slight way as to be almost unnoticeable.

o A. Interminable
o B. Imperceptibly
o C. Convoluted
o D. Grimace
o E. Reveling

 13. Thin typing paper for making carbon copies.

o A. Interminable
o B. Reveling
o C. Deftness
o D. Flicker
o E. Flimsy

 14. Coated with a varnish made from shellac or resin.

o A. Indulgence
o B. Grimacing
o C. Surmised
o D. Lacquered
o E. Flicker

 15. Directly telling you about the character's personality.

o A. Direct characterization
o B. Indirect characterization

 16. Revealing personality through a physical description of the character;

through the character's thoughts, words, and actions; and through other
characters' comments.

o A. Direct characterization
o B. Indirect characterization

 17. Leniency; forgiveness

o A. Jerked
o B. Lacquered
o C. Reveling
o D. Flimsy
o E. Indulgence

 18. Making a twisted or distorted facial expression.

 o A. Flicker
o B. Deftness
o C. Grimacing
o D. Indulgence
o E. Redolence

 19. Seem to be fully developed people in stories.

o A. Round characters
o B. Flat characters

 20. Appear to have only one or two superficial character traits.

o A. Round characters
o B. Flat characters

 21. Guessed; inferred

o A. Jerked
o B. Flicker
o C. Mesas
o D. Surmised
o E. Indolence

 22. Of a species of woodpecker.

o A. Mesas
o B. Flicker
o C. Queue
o D. Centenarian
o E. Porous

 23. Respect and consideration

o A. Deference
o B. Mesas
o C. Queue
o D. Jerked
o E. Surmised

 24. Flattened hills with steep sides.

o A. Jerked
o B. Surmised
o C. Queue
 o D. Mesas
o E. Indolence

 25. Preserved by cutting into strips and drying in the sun.

o A. Expended
o B. Amenable
o C. Edifice
o D. Jerked
o E. Flicker