Answers.

1. QUIZ ABOUT THE 9
STRUCTURES OF
ACADEMIC TEXT

2. 1. Which type of text structure shows
how two or more things are alike and
different?
A. Recount of Sequence
B. Cause & Effect
C. Problem & Solution
D. Compare/Contrast

3. 2. Which type of text structure
describes events in sequential
order?
A. Cause & Effect
B. Compare/Contrast
C. Recount of sequence
D. Problem & Solution

4. 3. Which Text Structure? Kids need to be
active to be healthy. Unfortunately, many
active kids get injured. Do you know what to
do for injuries? The word RICE can help you
remember what to do.
A. Problem Solution
B. Compare Contrast
C. Classification
D. Cause Effect

5. 4. The results of something happening
A. Sequence
B. Cause/effect
C. Effect
D. Cause

6. 5. A paragraph gives the dates in order of
when a tornado hit New Jersey. Which text
structure would this be?
A. Recount of Sequence
B. Enumeration
C. Cause and Effect
D. Problem Solution

7. 6. Which type of text structure answers the
questions what happened and why?
A. Definition
B. Cause & Effect
C. Problem & Solution
D. Compare/Contrast

8. 7. Which text structure defines a topic, and
gives supporting details about that topic?
A. Compare Contrast
B. Problem Solution
C. Cause and Effect
D. Definition

9. 8 - 10. What type of text is the following
passage?
• The boy was astonished by what he saw
inside. Never could he have imagined that,
there in the middle of the desert, there
existed a tent like this one. The ground was
covered with the most beautiful carpets he
had ever walked upon, and from the top of
the structure hung lamps of hand-wrought
gold, each with a lighted candle.

10. 8-10. The following passage
contains descriptive text: true or
false?
A. True

11. 11-13. Read the passage and identify the
structure.
Everyone was in a state of high
excitement, all the women in light
cotton saris worn specially for the
occasion, now clambering over the
side, screaming when the boat
rocked and clutching each other in
pleasurable panic.

12. 11-13. The following passage
contains descriptive text: true or
false?
C. Description

13. 14. Which of the following are normally
used in descriptive texts?
A. Adjectives
B. Adverbs
C. step by step action to be taken by the
reader
D. comparisons to enable the reader to
picture something

14. 15. You should always consider
the intended audience/reader
when writing a document to be
read by someone else.
A. True
B. False

15. 16. Which of the following is not a piece of
text?
A. an email
B. a newspaper article
C. a portrait
D. an advertisement

16. 17-18. Read each passage and identify how the information is being organized.
When it comes to making ice-cream, you can do it the traditional
way, by stirring it in a frozen container, or you can use liquid
nitrogen to freeze your mixture. There are some advantages to
using liquid nitrogen. Since liquid nitrogen freezes the mixture
faster, the crystal grains are smaller, giving the ice-cream a
creamier texture. The downside is that ice-crystals grow faster in
ice-cream prepared using liquid nitrogen, so it must be stored at
much colder temperatures. Both methods produce a distinct
texture, and both are delicious.
A. Cause and effect
B. Compare and contrast
C. Chronological
D. Descriptive

17. 19-20. Read each passage and identify how the information is being organized.
Have you ever had an ice-cream headache? That's
when a painful sensation resonates in your head after
eating something cold (usually ice-cream) on a hot day.
This pain is produced by the dilation of a nerve center in
the roof of your mouth. The nerve center is overreacting
to the cold by trying to heat your brain. Ice-cream
headaches have turned many smiles to frowns.
A. Cause and effect
B. Compare and contrast
C. Classification
D. Enumeration