Are you looking for a genre quiz to test your students’ understanding of literary genre and subgenre? Look no further. This quiz will help you evaluate how well your students understand fiction, nonfiction, folklore, drama, and the various subgenres. Â This quiz even comes in two different forms to decrease instances of copying.
Genre Quiz – Match the definitions to the terms and answer multiple choice questions about literary genre and subgenre.  Now includes answer keys.
Genre Quiz Form A – RTF
Genre Quiz Form B – RTF
Genre Quiz Form A – PDF
Genre Quiz Form B – PDF
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Common Core State Standards Related to Genre and Subgenre
Expand to View All Common Core State Standards Related to Genre and SubgenreCCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.9 – Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
ELA Standards: Literature
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.9 – With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.9 – Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.9 – Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.9 – Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.9 – Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.9 – Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.9 – Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
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Gloria Heatley
/ February 15, 2011I would love to have the answer key for the quizzes.
Mr. Morton
/ June 17, 2011Answers have been added. I’m sorry that it took 100 years.
sarah
/ February 9, 2016lmao