How Point of View Influences Events Practice Test
•8 QuestionsRead the story and answer the question.
I am not the kind of person who forgets things. I label my folders. I line up my pencils by height. I even fold my homework in the same direction every time. So when my violin case wasn’t in its usual corner by the coat hooks, my brain made a loud, dramatic alarm sound.
I scanned the music room. Chairs sat in crooked rows, like they had been arguing. Someone’s sheet music fluttered on the floor. Ms. Kim was helping a fourth grader tighten a bow. She looked calm, which made me feel even more suspicious. If I were her, I would be panicking.
“Has anyone seen my violin?” I asked. My voice came out too high.
Keisha looked up from the percussion shelf. “Didn’t you bring it to the stage for rehearsal?” she said.
I pictured the stage curtains swallowing my violin like a giant mouth. Great, I thought. Now it’s gone forever. I hurried to the stage, expecting to find an empty space and a sad, lonely rosin box.
Instead, my violin case sat on a chair with a sticky note: “Moved it so nobody trips. —Ms. Kim.” The case looked perfectly fine, as if it hadn’t caused me any trouble at all.
When I carried it back, the music room seemed less like a crime scene and more like a regular room again. Ms. Kim smiled at me. “I’m glad you found it,” she said.
How does the first-person narrator’s personality influence how the missing violin case is described?
Read the story and answer the question.
I am not the kind of person who forgets things. I label my folders. I line up my pencils by height. I even fold my homework in the same direction every time. So when my violin case wasn’t in its usual corner by the coat hooks, my brain made a loud, dramatic alarm sound.
I scanned the music room. Chairs sat in crooked rows, like they had been arguing. Someone’s sheet music fluttered on the floor. Ms. Kim was helping a fourth grader tighten a bow. She looked calm, which made me feel even more suspicious. If I were her, I would be panicking.
“Has anyone seen my violin?” I asked. My voice came out too high.
Keisha looked up from the percussion shelf. “Didn’t you bring it to the stage for rehearsal?” she said.
I pictured the stage curtains swallowing my violin like a giant mouth. Great, I thought. Now it’s gone forever. I hurried to the stage, expecting to find an empty space and a sad, lonely rosin box.
Instead, my violin case sat on a chair with a sticky note: “Moved it so nobody trips. —Ms. Kim.” The case looked perfectly fine, as if it hadn’t caused me any trouble at all.
When I carried it back, the music room seemed less like a crime scene and more like a regular room again. Ms. Kim smiled at me. “I’m glad you found it,” she said.
How does the first-person narrator’s personality influence how the missing violin case is described?