This document contains an irony quiz with multiple choice and constructed response questions about different types of situational, verbal, and dramatic irony. It tests the reader's ability to identify these forms of irony in various scenarios and passages. The document also includes an answer key that explains the type of irony used for each question.

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Irony Quiz Questions
1. What type of irony is this and why? A movie you are watching shows a woman jogging in the park. The next scene shows a mountain lion lying in wait down the path where the woman is jogging.
A. Situational: It is highly unexpected for there to be a mountain lion in the park.
B. Dramatic: We know the mountain lion is there, but the woman doesn't.
C. Not Irony: The woman should have expected the mountain lion to be there.
2. What type of irony is present: A son reluctantly walked outside to meet his father in the yard at 6:00 on a Saturday morning. “Are you ready to do some yard work?” his father asked. “Yeah, I can’t wait,” the boy replied.
A. Verbal irony
B. Dramatic irony
C. Situational irony
D. No irony
3. What type of irony is present: Janice begins to receive threatening notes in the mail and on her car. Then, a car tries to run her over in a dark parking lot. She can’t see who the driver is. She goes to her best friend Doug for help. However, her attacker keeps trying to kill her. Finally, Doug asks Janice to stay with him at his cabin so she will be safe. Then, he reveals that HE is the attacker!
A. Verbal irony
B. Dramatic irony
C. Situational irony
D. No irony
4. What type of irony is present: Lois Lane is a reporter at the Daily Planet. She is in love with the superhero “Superman”. She is obsessed with him and always asks her co-worker, Clark Kent for information about him. She thinks that Clark Kent and Superman are friends. However, Clark is actually Superman in disguise. Clark is very much in love with Lois, but she won’t give him the time of day.
A. Verbal irony
B. Dramatic irony
C. Situational irony
D. No irony

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5. What type of irony is this and why? An ambulance comes to a woman's house to take her to the hospital; hopefully to save her life. On the way to the hospital, the ambulance is hit by a semi-truck and everyone on board the ambulance is killed.
A. Situational: Nobody would expect an ambulance to be the result of someone’s death.
B. Dramatic: The ambulance driver was surprised by this unexpected event.
C. Verbal: Ambulances are supposed to protect people, but this one didn't.
*Constructed Response Question #1
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6. Tom has always liked Lucy, but Lucy has always thought Tom was annoying and unattractive. One day, Lucy comes home to find an eviction notice on her door. Apparently, her roommate had been spending the rent money that Lucy was giving her on other things. Lucy only has 24 hours to get all her stuff over to her mom’s house, and Lucy doesn’t even have a car. But Tom has a truck. So Lucy calls up Tom and asks him how he’s doing. She tells him that she’s always thought he was funny, and that they should hang out sometime. Tom thinks that Lucy has finally come around is beginning to like her. He also thinks that his jokes are funny because she is laughing after everything that he says.
Identify the type of irony that is being used in this passage. Include evidence from the passage to support your answer.
*Constructed Response Question #2
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6. Ashley is six feet tall. She will only date guys who are 6’3 and above. One night, she saw a guy who was less than 5 feet tall. She said, “Yeah, he definitely meets my height requirement.”
Identify the type of irony that is being used in this passage. Include evidence from the passage to support your answer.

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***Irony Answer Key***
1. B. Dramatic
2. A. Verbal
3. C. Situational
4. B. Dramatic
5. A. Situational
*Constructed Response Answer #1: Dramatic Irony is used in the passage. Lucy tells Tom that she has always thought that he was funny, and that they should hang out sometime only to use. She suddenly has less than 24hrs to move, Tom has a truck, and the opportunity to take advantage of poor Tom is in the making. The reader clearly knows Lucy’s motives; however Tom is clueless. Therefore, the irony is dramatic.
*Constructed Response Answer #2: Verbal Irony is used in the passage. Ashley has made it known that she only dates guys who are 6’3 and above. So, when she states that a guy less than 5ft tall definitely meets her height requirement; she is undoubtedly being sarcastic. Thus, she means the opposite which is verbal irony.