Tips for Multiple Choice Questions

Multiple choice tests are tricky. Click on the link below to do an exercise that gives you tips for choosing the answer on a multiple choice test.

LINK: Tips for Multiple Choice Questions

Also, click on the next link below for tips on answering different types of multiple choice questions:

LINK: Three common types of multiple choice questions

The following question isn't from the exercise at the link. It's amusing, but it's an example of how multiple choice questions can drive you crazy!

Study Stack Practice--Lady or the Tiger Vocabulary

Click on the link below to study and play games with vocabulary words from the story, "The Lady or the Tiger?" at studystack.com:

LINK: Vocabulary from "The Lady or the Tiger?"

Practice Reading Charts and Tables

Try reading a table or chart without Teacher Bob's help!


My Suggestion: Click on the link below to practice reading bar graphs, pie charts, and tables. Answer the questions for each of the three activities, to make sure you are reading and understanding the charts correctly. The quiz page includes a dictionary for looking up unfamiliar words. It has a calculator if you need math help to answer a question.

LINK: Review Charts and Tables

"The Lady Or the Tiger" Reading Quiz

Now that you have read Frank Stockton's story, "The Lady Or the Tiger," try taking a quiz. It is a timed reading quiz based on a section of the story (a different version from the one we read in class), but words are missing. It is similar to a Celsa grammar test, but it is also similar to using context to decide the meaning of an unknown word. Where a word is missing, you have to decide which word best fits both the grammar and the meaning of the story at that point. You will have 10 minutes to complete the quiz.

My suggestion: Click on the LINK below to take the quiz. Below the link is a sample--the first two questions from the quiz.

LINK: Reading Quiz--"The Lady Or the Tiger"

Sample Questions:

When all the people had assembled, the king, surrounded by his court, xx1xx a signal. Then a door beneath him opened, and the accused man stepped out into the arena. Directly opposite him were two doors, exactly xx2xx and side by side.

1. xx1xx
a)	give
b)	gives
c)	gave
d)	given
2. xx2xx
a)	alike
b)	different
c)	big
d)	closed

Read "The Lady and the Tiger" online and complete your class assignment

In the ALC (Rock Island) class, we read a story by Frank Stockton called "The Lady and the Tiger." It was taken from C.G. Draper's Great American Stories 1: An ESL/EFL Reader.

Clicking on the following link will take you to another online version of the same story. Someone has rewritten the story to make it shorter and easier, but it contains the same ideas and information as the version we read in class.

LINK: Shorter Summary Version of "The Lady and the Tiger" 

If you would like to read and listen to Frank Stockton's original version of the story at Voice of America, click on the link below. Play the video, which allows you to read and listen to the story at the same time. 

LINK: Read and listen to still another version of "The Lady and the Tiger"

HERE IS THE WRITING ASSIGNMENT FROM THE BOOK:

Writing: Three-Paragraph Composition

     1. Which came out of the opened door--the lady, or the tiger? Write down this question. Then write a paragraph that begins with this sentence: Perhaps it was the lady who came out.
Give at least three reasons why the princess chose the lady for her lover.

     2.  Write a second paragraph that begins like this: On the other hand, perhaps it was the tiger. Give at least three reasons why the princess chose the tiger.

     3. Write a third paragraph that begins with these words: Personally, I think . . .
Give your own choice. Which of the reasons that you have written is the most important to you? Why?

(The writing assignment is from Draper, C.G., Great American Stories 1: An ESL/EFL Reader. 3rd edition. New York: Pearson Education, 2001, p. 127.

Practice Reading a City Map

Click on the links below to practice using a city map:

LINK: Reading a City Map: Directions

LINK: Locating Buildings on a City Map

Sample questions: