Author’s Purpose Quiz
Directions: Read the description of each text and identify the MAIN purpose of the author.

1.  A recipe to make an award-winning spicy chicken salad

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade

2.  A note from your friend asking you to be his science partner

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade

3.  A map of the school showing all of the emergency exits 

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade

4.  A poem about a chef who ruins every meal that he cooks

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade

5.  A speech arguing that the 8th grade class should read The Hunger Games

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade

6.  A care label on the back of a sweatshirt explaining how to wash it

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade

7.  A script for a TV show about a detective who can read the minds of farm animals

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade

8.  A sign carried by a protestor that reads, “More Libraries, Fewer Prisons!”

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade
	
9.  The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade

10.  A novel about a young girl who learns to demand respect from the world

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade

11.  The instruction booklet to a video game called Vehicle Grand Larceny

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade

12.  A teen’s letter to the mayor asking for a skate park to help keep kids out of trouble

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade

13.  The lyrics to the song “Build a Tent on My Heart,” performed by The Mountain Boys  

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade

14.  A sticker on a frozen pizza with directions explaining how to cook the pizza

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade

15. A card from a classmate asking you to go to the dance because you will have fun 

A.  Entertain				B.  Inform				C.  Persuade