Quiz about the 9 structures of academic text - EAPP
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This document contains a quiz about the 9 main structures of academic text: compare/contrast, recount of sequence, cause and effect, problem and solution, definition, description. It asks multiple choice questions to identify each structure in given passages. The passages cover topics like making ice cream using different methods, experiencing ice cream headaches, and describing a tent in the desert.
Quiz about the 9 structures of academic text - EAPP
- 1. QUIZ ABOUT THE 9 STRUCTURES OF ACADEMIC TEXT
- 2. 1. Which type of text structure shows how two or more things are alike and different? A. Recount of Sequence B. Cause & Effect C. Problem & Solution D. Compare/Contrast
- 3. 2. Which type of text structure describes events in sequential order? A. Cause & Effect B. Compare/Contrast C. Recount of sequence D. Problem & Solution
- 4. 3. Which Text Structure? Kids need to be active to be healthy. Unfortunately, many active kids get injured. Do you know what to do for injuries? The word RICE can help you remember what to do. A. Problem Solution B. Compare Contrast C. Classification D. Cause Effect
- 5. 4. The results of something happening A. Sequence B. Cause/effect C. Effect D. Cause
- 6. 5. A paragraph gives the dates in order of when a tornado hit New Jersey. Which text structure would this be? A. Recount of Sequence B. Enumeration C. Cause and Effect D. Problem Solution
- 7. 6. Which type of text structure answers the questions what happened and why? A. Definition B. Cause & Effect C. Problem & Solution D. Compare/Contrast
- 8. 7. Which text structure defines a topic, and gives supporting details about that topic? A. Compare Contrast B. Problem Solution C. Cause and Effect D. Definition
- 9. 8 - 10. Read the passage carefully. • The boy was astonished by what he saw inside. Never could he have imagined that, there in the middle of the desert, there existed a tent like this one. The ground was covered with the most beautiful carpets he had ever walked upon, and from the top of the structure hung lamps of hand-wrought gold, each with a lighted candle.
- 10. 8-10. The following passage contains descriptive text: true or false? A. True B. False
- 11. 11-13. Read the passage and identify the structure. Everyone was in a state of high excitement, all the women in light cotton saris worn specially for the occasion, now clambering over the side, screaming when the boat rocked and clutching each other in pleasurable panic.
- 12. 11-13. The following passage contains what type of text structure? A. Compare Contrast B. Problem Solution C. Description D. Definition
- 13. 14. Which of the following are normally used in descriptive texts? A. Adjectives B. Adverbs C. step by step action to be taken by the reader D. comparisons to enable the reader to picture something
- 14. 15. You should always consider the intended audience/reader when writing a document to be read by someone else. A. True B. False
- 15. 16. Which of the following is not a piece of text? A. an email B. a newspaper article C. a portrait D. an advertisement
- 16. 17-18. Read each passage and identify how the information is being organized. When it comes to making ice-cream, you can do it the traditional way, by stirring it in a frozen container, or you can use liquid nitrogen to freeze your mixture. There are some advantages to using liquid nitrogen. Since liquid nitrogen freezes the mixture faster, the crystal grains are smaller, giving the ice-cream a creamier texture. The downside is that ice-crystals grow faster in ice-cream prepared using liquid nitrogen, so it must be stored at much colder temperatures. Both methods produce a distinct texture, and both are delicious. A. Cause and effect B. Compare and contrast C. Chronological D. Descriptive
- 17. 19-20. Read each passage and identify how the information is being organized. Have you ever had an ice-cream headache? That's when a painful sensation resonates in your head after eating something cold (usually ice-cream) on a hot day. This pain is produced by the dilation of a nerve center in the roof of your mouth. The nerve center is overreacting to the cold by trying to heat your brain. Ice-cream headaches have turned many smiles to frowns. A. Cause and effect B. Compare and contrast C. Classification D. Enumeration