This document provides examples of question stems that can be used to create multiple choice questions about stories or passages. It includes stems to ask about characters, events, titles, reasons for writing, character traits, quantities, temporal relationships, and causal relationships. It reminds that questions need answer choices and one correct answer alongside distractors.

1. Questions and Question Stems for Multiple Choice Questions
Which statement is an opinion of the story?
Which statement is a fact from the story?
Who was the main character?
Which event happened first in the story?
When did (name event) take place?
Which would make a good NEW title for the story?
Why did the author write this story?
What happened after.......
What happened before.........
Which of the following is a character trait of .........
How many ..............
Who was it that ..........
Can you tell why..........
Why did/is ...........
How did/is........
When did/is ......
Who did/is .........
What did ......
Reminders:
When you see ….. you need to add words that make sense from your story.
You need to have 4 answer choices for each question.
You may have answer choice D as: none of the above or all of the above
but only for 1 or 2 questions.
Remember when creating answers for your questions you need to be sure
you have the CORRECT ANSWER along with a distracter!
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