Want to see correct answers?
Login or join for free!
  Reading Worksheets
Looking for Reading worksheets?
Check out our pre-made Reading worksheets!
Share/Like This Page
Filter By Grade

You are browsing Grade 6 questions. View questions in All Grades.

Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Continuing Education

Browse Questions

Sixth Grade (Grade 6) Identifying Genre Questions

You can create printable tests and worksheets from these Grade 6 Identifying Genre questions! Select one or more questions using the checkboxes above each question. Then click the add selected questions to a test button before moving to another page.

Previous Page 2 of 4 Next
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
In which genre would you most likely find a character crossing a desert in search of a lost ancient city?
  1. biography
  2. realistic fiction
  3. adventure
  4. mystery
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
Sleeping Beauty is an example of mystery.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
This genre has animals behaving like humans. A moral or lesson is learned through its reading.
  1. realistic fiction
  2. fantasy
  3. folk tale
  4. fable
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
What is an imaginative story that shows what a group of people in the past believed in called?
  1. non-fiction
  2. magazine article
  3. poem
  4. myth
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
What genre is a type of fantasy that uses science and technology?
  1. science fiction
  2. historical fiction
  3. poetry
  4. informational
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
Which plot is from the fantasy genre?
  1. a princess must escape from an evil dragon's castle
  2. citizens have just learned that a giant meteoroid has wiped out the eastern seaboard
  3. a young boy finds his lost dog by placing an ad in a local paper
  4. a person learns a lesson by the actions of someone else in the story
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
Which of the following is not a literary genre?
  1. non fiction
  2. drama
  3. poetry
  4. alliteration
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
Which character is least likely to appear in a fantasy?
  1. a unicorn
  2. a scientist
  3. a talking tree
  4. a famous person
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
Which character is least likely to appear in a fantasy?
  1. a unicorn
  2. a talking tree
  3. a scientist
  4. a fairy godmother
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
What type of story would have a wizard as the main character?
  1. fantasy
  2. mystery
  3. science fiction
  4. realistic fiction
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
Which event would occur in historical fiction?
  1. A soldier's musket misfired
  2. The character's cell phone is stolen
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
The type of figurative language usually found in fables:
  1. metaphor
  2. idiom
  3. alliteration
  4. personification
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
A story acted out usually on stage is called:
  1. Folktale
  2. Mystery
  3. Drama
  4. Fantasy
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
Realistic fiction takes place in the here and now.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 6 Identifying Genre
This is a form of fiction where science or technology is the key element.
  1. realistic fiction
  2. tall tale
  3. science fiction
  4. biography
Previous Page 2 of 4 Next