T2.2.1 Summarising and organising material Quiz: KS3 English, Unit 2

The 20 questions

1. What is a summary?

   • A list of every character and location mentioned in the text, in alphabetical order
   • A personal reaction to the text, written as a diary entry with no reference to its content
   • A word-for-word copy of the text with only the most important sentences retained
   • A short version of a text that keeps its main points and leaves out minor detail

2. What is a paraphrase?

   • A restatement of a text's meaning in different words, keeping its sense
   • A translation of the text into a different language without any change in meaning
   • A quotation of the text word for word, placed inside quotation marks in the essay
   • A summary that is shorter than one sentence, usually written in capital letters

3. Why is it important to put a summary in your own words?

   • It shows that you have understood the main ideas rather than copying them
   • It means the summary can be published without giving the original author any credit
   • It removes the need to read the original text, which is always too long anyway
   • It makes the summary longer so that it meets the required word count in the test

4. What is a key point in a text?

   • A word printed in bold that gives the exact page number of the chapter's ending
   • A piece of punctuation used at the end of the final sentence of a paragraph
   • A detail in the margin that gives the price of the book in its first edition
   • A main idea that the rest of the paragraph develops or supports

5. What is the best way to organise notes from a text?

   • Writing every word of the text down in a single unbroken block of prose
   • Drawing a picture of the cover of the book and leaving the rest blank
   • Using headings and bullet points grouped by theme or in the order of the text
   • Recording only the page numbers, without any of the content of the text

6. What is a mind map?

   • A map of the city where a writer lived, used to plan the setting of a novel
   • A list of the cities visited by an author during a book tour, in date order
   • A diagram that links a central idea to related ideas, showing connections visually
   • A set of directions to walk around a museum in the most efficient way possible

7. A paragraph has four sentences: the first introduces a theme, the second and third give examples, the fourth concludes. What should a summary keep?

   • Every example, copied in order, with the same number of sentences as the original
   • Only the conclusion, with the theme and examples left out completely
   • Only the examples, presented as a list without any link to the theme
   • The theme and the main example, but not every detail or illustration

8. Which summary is most accurate for a chapter in which a girl loses her dog, searches the town, and finds it at the river?

   • A girl searches the town for her lost dog and finds it safe by the river
   • A dog barks loudly in the street, and the girl is wearing a red coat with buttons
   • A girl owns a dog with a long tail that was born on a farm near the river
   • The town has three parks, a library and a river that flows through the centre

9. Why might a student organise notes by theme rather than by page order?

   • To make the notes shorter by leaving out all the themes except the first one
   • To keep the notes in the order the book was printed, which is always required
   • To compare ideas across the text and see how a theme develops
   • To hide the notes from the teacher, who will check them against the page order

10. A student writes 'Summary: The text is about a lot of things.' What is the problem?

    • It is too long and contains too many specific details from the text
    • It is written in the first person, which is always wrong in a summary
    • It is too vague and omits the specific main points of the text
    • It uses a quotation, which is not allowed in any summary of a text at all

11. Which feature of a good summary should be checked?

    • Whether it is longer than the original text, so the reader feels it is complete
    • Whether it is printed in the same font as the original text for consistency
    • Whether it includes the main points in logical order without adding new information
    • Whether it uses more adjectives than the original text to sound impressive

12. A student must summarise a 2,000-word article in 100 words. Which step is best first?

    • Copy the first hundred words of the article and stop at that point
    • Write a list of questions about the article without reading it through first
    • Count every word of the article and divide by one hundred to find the word count
    • Identify the main idea and key points in each paragraph, then compress them

13. Why is it useful to summarise a text before writing an essay about it?

    • It allows the writer to skip reading the rest of the text, which is no longer needed
    • It helps the writer see the overall argument and identify the evidence needed
    • It guarantees the essay will get full marks because the summary is perfect
    • It means the essay can copy the summary directly, with no further thought required

14. What is synthesising information from several texts?

    • Choosing the text with the most pages and ignoring the others entirely
    • Copying information from several texts into one long list with no organisation
    • Combining ideas from different sources into a new, coherent view or argument
    • Translating each text into the same language so that they look identical

15. A student's notes from a textbook are a long list of facts with no headings. What is a good improvement?

    • Copying the list again in a smaller font so that it fits on one page
    • Grouping related facts under headings so the information is easier to revise
    • Adding more facts so that the list becomes longer and more difficult to scan
    • Throwing away the facts and keeping only the title of the textbook chapter

16. What does selecting key information mean?

    • Picking the most attractive colour of ink to use when writing the summary
    • Selecting every sentence that contains a verb in the past tense
    • Choosing the most relevant details that support the purpose of the summary
    • Choosing a random sample of sentences from the text without any criteria

17. A writer summarises a news story by listing who, what, where, when and why. What is this technique?

    • Using the five senses to describe an event in a vivid, sensory way
    • Using five paragraphs, each of which must begin with the letter W
    • Using the five chapters of a novel as a model for the summary's length
    • Using the five W questions to capture the essential information of an event

18. Which is the most accurate use of a quotation in a summary?

    • Quoting a short, key phrase that cannot be expressed better in the writer's own words
    • Quoting the whole first page of the original text to show it has been read
    • Quoting every adjective in the text, so the summary is full of the author's voice
    • Quoting a sentence that is not in the original text, to make the summary sound real

19. Which problem is caused by including too many examples in a summary?

    • The summary becomes shorter and more accurate than the original text
    • The summary becomes too long and loses its focus on the main points
    • The summary cannot be read aloud, because examples are banned from speech
    • The summary loses its title, because examples always replace the heading

20. Why must a summary keep the original meaning of the text?

    • Changing the meaning makes the summary more interesting, which is the purpose of summaries
    • Keeping the meaning is only needed if the original author is still alive to check it
    • Changing the meaning would misrepresent the author's ideas and mislead the reader
    • Keeping the meaning is optional, because summaries are only checked for word count

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