Grade 9 · English language arts
This quiz helps revise “Classic short stories” in English language arts for grade 9. It has 25 questions in five categories: People in the Stories, Choices and Turns, Storytelling Tools, Objects and Places, Meet the Writers. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
In The Gift of the Magi, who sells her hair to buy her husband a Christmas gift?
In The Last Leaf, which old painter makes the final leaf survive a storm?
In The Open Window…
In the gameIn The Necklace, from…
In the gameWho leads Fortunato beneath…
In the gameIn The Gift of the Magi, what heirloom does the husband sell to buy his wife's combs?
In The Monkey's Paw, how much money does Mr. White wish for first?
In The Last Leaf…
In the gameIn The Open Window…
In the gameIn The Necklace, what…
In the gameWhen a character tells the story using “I,” what point of view is used?
What is the tense anticipation created by the unanswered knocks in The Monkey's Paw called?
Morris warns that the…
In the gameEach spouse's sacrifice makes…
In the gameA speaker insists he…
In the gameAfter hiding a body beneath floorboards, what sound does the narrator claim grows louder?
What kind of vine grows on the brick wall outside Johnsy's window in The Last Leaf?
What underground burial passages…
In the gameIn The Monkey's Paw…
In the gameFortunato is lured below…
In the game
Who is this pictured writer of The Black Cat and The Fall of the House of Usher?
Who wrote both The Gift of the Magi and The Last Leaf?
Who is this pictured…
In the gameWhich English writer…
In the gameWhich pen name did…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.