Recount Text: Quiz 1

On the River

            I paddled for about five miles and then I was tired. I stopped on Jackson’s Island, hid the canoe behind some trees and went to sleep.

            I woke up when I heard a boom. It came from somewhere up the river. Then another boom came louder.

            I saw the white smoke. They were shooting a big gun from a steamboat into the water because they wanted to find my dead body. They wanted it to come up to the top of the water.

            I hid in the tall grass when the steamboat came near the island. I could see Tom Sawyer, Tom’s Aunt Polly, the Widow Douglas, Judge Thatcher, even Pap was there. Everybody was talking about me. They all thought I was dead. They shot the big gun again. BOOM! That one was really loud. It made my ears ring, but I didn’t move from the tall grass. After a while, the boat went away.

            On the fourth day, when I was looking around, I stepped on a fire. It was still smoking. I didn’t wait to see who made it. I just ran. I ran all the way back to my canoe. I thought I heard somebody, so I climbed a tree and looked around. There wasn’t anybody here. That night I went very quietly back to the fire. When I got there, I saw a man sleeping near it. He had a coat over his head. Then suddenly he started to move and he took the coat off his face. It was Jim!

            “Jim”, I said quietly while tapping his shoulder.

            Jim turned around and said surprisingly, “It is you, Huckleberry Finn!”

            I was very glad to see Jim. Jim and I sat and talked. It was good to talk to somebody. I didn’t fell so lonely.

  
1.      What is the purpose of the text?
A.    To criticize the readers
B.     To analyze the readers
C.     To describe the readers
D.    To entertain the readers
E.     To persuade the readers
 
2.      Who is the main character in the story?
A.    Jim
B.     Tom Sawyer
C.     Tom’s Aunt Polly
D.    Huckleberry Finn
E.     The Widow Douglas
 
3.      What part of the story describes the orientation?
A.    1st  paragraph
B.     2nd paragraph
C.     4th paragraph
D.    7th paragraph
E.     8th paragraph
 
4.      “…. I said quietly while tapping his shoulder.”
What is the closest meaning of the underlined word?
A.    Hitting
B.     Kicking
C.     Touching
D.    Pushing
E.     Knocking
 
5.      “They wanted it to come up to the top of the river.” (paragraph 3)
What does ‘it’ refer to?
A.    Gun
B.     Canoe
C.     Dead body
D.    Steamboat                            

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