Organizing Your Thoughts

English 9

Mr. Salter

Prewriting Quiz

1. What is the first step in the writing process?

a) Drafting

b) Editing

c) Prewriting

2. What does prewriting involve?

a) Generating ideas and organizing them

b) Copy editing

c) Revising

3. What is the main subject you are going to write about called?

a) The subtopic

b) The topic

c) The conclusion

4. How can creating a word web help you?

a) It organizes your topics and subtopics

b) It writes your paper for you

c) It make typing easier

5. What are the 5 “W’s”?

a) Wherefore, whoever, whence, whilst, which

b) Who, what when where and why

c) Walter, William, Wesley, Webster, Winthrop

6. What goes into a story map?

a) Who, what, and where

b) Person, place, and thing

c) Setting, time, place, characters, problems, plot, and resolution

7. How does putting your thoughts in a sequence help?a) It gives you a concrete order of events or ideasb) It creates spacec) It makes you think up a new topic

8. How can you use a story map?a) To write an original storyb) To make a research paper more interestingc) Both a and c

9. What might be subtopics of a story entitled, “Our Summer Adventure?”a) Getting there, camping for a week, the return homeb) Exams, study hall, math classc) Potatoes, peas and carrots

10. What might be subtopics of a research paper on the history of baseball?a) The history of the World Series, how the game has changed, influential

playersb) Football, soccer, basketball, hockeyc) Bases, balls, helmets, other equipment

Answers

1. C

2. A

3. B

4. A

5. B

6. C

7. A

8. C

9. A

10. A