This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Academic Writing > Text Features – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Text Features Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. If you want to know what a section of a book is about before reading it, which text feature should you look at? A) The glossary. B) The index. C) The heading. D) The bibliography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The heading. 2. Text that is darker or a different color; used to show important word or words in the glossary. A) Italics. B) Bold print. C) Text box. D) Bulleted list. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bold print. 3. When trying to understand the meaning of a scientific word, which text feature would be most helpful? A) Timeline. B) Index. C) Glossary-at the back of the book. D) Illustration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glossary-at the back of the book. 4. A list of the contents of a book and the page numbers where they can be found. (in the front) A) Charts and graphs. B) Font styles. C) Table of contents. D) Glossary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Table of contents. 5. Shows what something looks like. Drawn by an illustrator. A) Photograph. B) Caption. C) Illustration. D) Maps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Illustration. 6. The text features are just as important as the paragraphs when trying to understand nonfiction books. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. A city planner wants to identify a trend in new home construction in the closest suburbs. He wants to track building over ten years. What text feature will he use to show his results? A) Font styles. B) Index. C) Charts and graphs. D) Captions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charts and graphs. 8. Noun:a picture, drawing, or graph used as a decoration or to make something (such as magazine article) easier tounderstand A) Sidebar. B) Graphic. C) Contribute. D) Header. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Graphic. 9. NAME THAT TEXT FEATURE!The words in a text that are darker and easier to see, so you know that those words are important. A) Caption. B) Bold print. C) Text box. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bold print. 10. Alphabetical list of terms and their definitions in the back A) Captions. B) Index. C) Diagram. D) Glossary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Glossary. 11. Text that is slanted used to show important words or words in the glossary. A) Bold print. B) Text bos. C) Italics. D) Bulleted list. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Italics. 12. What is a cutaway? A) Helps the reader identify a photograph or a picture and its parts. B) Helps the reader understand something by looking at it from the inside. C) Gives the reader a general idea of what the text will be about. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Helps the reader understand something by looking at it from the inside. 13. Which text feature sends the reader signals about how to read the content? A) Diagram. B) Bold, italic, or colored text. C) Map. D) Subheadings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bold, italic, or colored text. 14. Which shows us which words are important to that topic? A) Title. B) Picture. C) Index. D) Bold Words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bold Words. 15. If you were writing about the candy eaten the most for Halloween, what text feature would be easiest for the reader to use? A) Timeline. B) Photo. C) Graph. D) Subheading. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Graph. 16. A list of key terms in alphabetical order; each key word is defined. A) Table of contents. B) Glossary. C) Index. D) Textbox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Glossary. 17. What helps the reader define words that are in the book? A) Captions. B) Table of Contents. C) Glossary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glossary. 18. Brenda has purchased a book about the Titanic. She wants to see if there is a section about the building of the ship. Where should she look? A) Headings and subheadings. B) Table of contents. C) Glossary. D) Diagrams. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Table of contents. 19. Which description best matches Glossary? A) An illustration drawn by the author. B) Found at the front of the book; includes chapter titles and their beginning page #s. C) Includes important words from the text and their meanings. D) A picture representation, including a key that shows where something is located in the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Includes important words from the text and their meanings. 20. Which text feature helps readers understand the meaning of a word? A) Glossary. B) Table of contents. C) Caption. D) Index. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Glossary. 21. True or False:Charts, graphs, and tables are used to organize data to make it more difficult to read. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 22. What is a Description text structure? A) Point out the likeness and/or differences among facts, people, or events. B) Order of time. C) How facts or events happen or come into being because of other facts or events. D) Provides characteristics of a person, place, thing or idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Provides characteristics of a person, place, thing or idea. 23. What is the role of a sidebar in a text? A) To introduce new characters. B) To summarize the main text. C) To conclude the text. D) To provide additional information related to the main text. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To provide additional information related to the main text. 24. What is a Chronological text structure? A) Point out the likeness and/or differences among facts, people, or events. B) Order of time. C) Provides characteristics of a person, place, thing or idea. D) Steps or the order they occur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Order of time. 25. The purpose of graphics (such as graphs, tables, pictures, or maps) is to: A) Show information that occurs in a certain order. B) Separate text into sections based on main ideas. C) Describe what is found in a photo or illustration. D) Help the reader visualize important information. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Help the reader visualize important information. 26. A drawing that shows parts of something. A) Illustration. B) Diagram. C) Graph. D) Map. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diagram. 27. Bold, colored, and italicized print all help to signal that a word is important and/or found in the glossary A) Special Print. B) Side Bar. C) Table/Graph. D) Photograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Special Print. 28. This feature will list the important words in alphabetical order and give you the page number to find the word. A) Glossary. B) Table of contents. C) Diagram. D) Index. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Index. 29. Help the reader to locate information in the text, printed in large or bold print to make them stand out. A) Titles. B) Headings/subheadings. C) Captions. D) Index. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Headings/subheadings. 30. Which text feature would help me find the meaning of words? A) Table of contents. B) Index. C) Headings. D) Glossary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Glossary. 31. NAME THAT TEXT FEATURE!This shows you a picture of where things are located, or how to get somewhere. A) Map. B) Timeline. C) Diagram. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Map. 32. The central idea is also called? A) Character Traits. B) Theme. C) RACE. D) Main Idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Main Idea. 33. If there were words under a picture, telling you more about it, that would be called a ..... A) Heading. B) Caption. C) Chart. D) Index. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caption. 34. What is the purpose of a Heading/Subtitle? A) Shows the reader what a picture or photograph is of. B) Emphasizes an important word. C) Tells the reader the central idea of the section. D) Provides extra information to the reader about the topic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tells the reader the central idea of the section. 35. What is a Glossary? A) A page in the middle of the book with pictures relating to the text. B) Gives a definition of the vocabulary words in the text. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gives a definition of the vocabulary words in the text. 36. How does a caption enhance a photograph in a text? A) By offering a humorous comment. B) By listing the photographer's name. C) By providing a detailed description of the photo. D) By explaining the photo's relevance to the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By explaining the photo's relevance to the text. 37. Which text feature helps readers understand the meaning of difficult words? A) Index. B) Bibliography. C) Glossary. D) Table of contents. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glossary. 38. Picture made with a camera to show how things look in real life A) Illustration. B) Photograph. C) Graph. D) Map. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photograph. 39. Why would a reader use a glossary when reading an informational text? A) To find out more information about the topic. B) To find a specific topic. C) To locate information to see how it is organized. D) To find the meaning of a bold or highlighted work from the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To find the meaning of a bold or highlighted work from the text. 40. Shows how things move from one stage to another. A) Flow Chart. B) Pie Chart. C) Venn Diagram. D) Table. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flow Chart. 41. A drawing or sketch that shows what something looks like A) Table/Graph. B) Map. C) Illustration. D) Photograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Illustration. 42. Read the following paragraph. Which text structure is used? The pond was a beautiful place to visit. The falling leaves, all different colors, decorated the surface of the water. At the edges of the pond, small wildflowers grew. The golden forest glowed faintly in the distance. A) Compare and contrast. B) Description. C) Sequence. D) Problem and solution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Description. 43. What is the purpose of a sidebar in a text? A) To provide additional information related to the main text. B) To summarize the entire text. C) To list all the chapters. D) To define difficult words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To provide additional information related to the main text. 44. What is 'main idea'? A) A detail in the text. B) The title of the text. C) A summary of the text. D) What the text is mostly about. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What the text is mostly about. 45. This feature will list theimportant words in alphabetical order and give you the page number to find theword. A) Index. B) Diagram. C) Glossary. D) Table of contents. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Table of contents. 46. Gives more information about a picture or illustration A) Illustration. B) Title. C) Caption. D) Subheading/subtitle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caption. 47. The text structure of ..... gives many details or characteristics on a specific topic. A) Chronological. B) Problem & solution. C) Description. D) Cause & effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Description. 48. Located in the front of the book; helps us find the subtitles of each chapter in the book and tells us what page each chapter is located A) Caption. B) Table of Contents. C) Glossary. D) Title. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Table of Contents. 49. What text feature would show you where something is in the world? A) A diagram. B) A table. C) The glossary. D) A map. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A map. 50. Which text feature would you use to find the meaning of a word you don't know? A) Index. B) Table of Contents. C) Subheading. D) Glossary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Glossary. 51. Choose the signal words that indicate compare and contrast. A) Therefore, cause, effect, consequently. B) Later, then, next, Monday. C) Similar, different, common, on the other hand. D) Possibility, struggle, hope, problem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Similar, different, common, on the other hand. 52. The word altitude means? A) How much the land tilts up or down. B) To be mean to someone. C) How high a place is. D) The speed of an avalanche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How high a place is. 53. NAME THAT TEXT FEATURE!This tells you what each section of a text is about.*Remember ..... the title tells you what the whole story is about!* A) Heading. B) Diagram. C) Photograph. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heading. 54. What is the function of a subheading? A) It represents and shows data about a topic mentioned in the text. B) It indicates the topic and/or main idea of the entire text. C) It is a box of information set apart from the main text that elaborates about a detail mentioned in the text. D) It helps the reader identify the main idea for a section of text. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It helps the reader identify the main idea for a section of text. 55. Choose the signal words that indicate cause and effect. A) Next, after, then, first, last. B) Similar, common, compare, contrast. C) Consequently, as a result of, so, therefore. D) Struggle, promise, problem, solution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consequently, as a result of, so, therefore. 56. This feature list topics and gives you the page number to navigate to the information. Found in the front of the book. A) Table of contents. B) Index. C) Glossary. D) Diagram. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Table of contents. 57. Tells the names and parts of a diagram, photo, or illustration A) Side Bar. B) Index. C) Caption. D) Label. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Label. 58. Slanted text that identifies new or important words A) Italic Print. B) Graph. C) Bold Print. D) Illustration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Italic Print. 59. Which text feature is typically used to highlight important information or key points in a text? A) Italics. B) Underlining. C) Bold print. D) Quotation marks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bold print. 60. I am looking at a science textbook and my teacher tells me to find the chapter about space. What text feature would I use to quickly find the chapter page number? A) Index-at the back of the book. B) Table of Contents-at the front of the book. C) Map. D) Glossary-at the back of the book. 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