Use this online writing quiz entitled the Short Story Writing Quiz for kids, students and children to test their knowledge of storytelling and the short story as a literary form.
The Short Story Writing Quiz enables teachers, students, children and kids to test themselves on the development of the short story as a form of literature and how ballads, fables, fairy tales, and epic poems gave birth to this unique form of writing. This quiz will test you on some of literature's classic short stories: Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," and Katherine Mansfield's "The Doll's House."
This online Short Story Writing Quiz quiz contains 20 questions from a pool of over 100 thereby allowing repeat use. We recommend that students study the relevant videos provided on this site on this subject before attempting this quiz.