Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction Answers

Timon is supposed to find a fictional text to compare with the nonfiction book about Italian artists that he read. Which text would best match this purpose?

Vito is reading a historical fiction novel about Nelson Mandela for his literature class. He needs to identify a theme from the novel. Which statement is an example of a theme?

One of the central ideas of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is that the children from the evacuations learn to care for the people looking after them. Which sentence from "Children of the Wartime Evacuation” expresses a similar idea?

Read the passage from "Children of the Wartime Evacuation.”As a mother, I feel deeply troubled at the thought of being forced to miss out on five or six years of my sons' childhood. I'm profoundly grateful that I have never had to face that dilemma. In Operation Pied Piper, the family suffered but I feel the real losers, as in the legend, were the parents. It was as tough for many as one would expect. Although some wrote of their immense gratitude to the kindly foster parents who had loved and cared for their children, there were far more stories of mothers feeling that they had missed part of their children's lives.–"Children of the Wartime Evacuation,” Julie Summers

Read the passage from "Children of the Wartime Evacuation” about children who stayed with a man in Chesham during the war.We returned to London in the knowledge that we would never go back to Chesham again. But the following day we each received a letter from his solicitor containing a cheque. In the envelope was a note that read: "A very small token of my very great affection.”–"Children of the Wartime Evacuation,”Julie Summers

Read the passage from "Children of the Wartime Evacuation.”In January 1941, Sheila Shear and her sister were evacuated from east London to the Chilterns and billeted with a bachelor called Harry Mayo. They came from very different backgrounds – the Shears were Jewish, he was Christian – but an affectionate bond developed between them. Weekly visits and holidays with Uncle Harry, as they came to know him, continued long after the war had ended.–"Children of the Wartime Evacuation,”Julie Summers

Read the passage from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, in which Susan speaks with her younger siblings."I think he’s an old dear,” said Susan."Oh, come off it!” said Edmund, who was tired and pretending not to be tired, which always made him bad-tempered. "Don’t go on talking like that.”"Like what?” said Susan; "and anyway, it’s time you were in bed.”"Trying to talk like Mother,” said Edmund. "And who are you to say when I’m to go to bed? Go to bed yourself.”"Hadn’t we all better go to bed?” said Lucy.–The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,C. S. Lewis

Read the passage from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.Lucy felt a little frightened, but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well. She looked back over her shoulder and there, between the dark tree trunks, she could still see the open doorway of the wardrobe and even catch a glimpse of the empty room from which she had set out. (She had, of course, left the door open, for she knew that it is a very silly thing to shut oneself into a wardrobe.) It seemed to be still daylight there. "I can always get back if anything goes wrong,” thought Lucy.–The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,C. S. Lewis

One of the themes in "Children of the Wartime Evacuation” is that it always helps to find the bright side of situations. Which detail from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe best supports the same theme?

Read the passage from "Children of the Wartime Evacuation.”It was codenamed Operation Pied Piper. Who on earth came up with that name? Not a mother, that is certain. After all, the piper leads the children of Hamelin away from the town, never to return. Over the six years of the war, more than two million children were sent away from their family homes. Most returned, but how they had changed and how the separation affected their relationships with their families is seldom considered.–"Children of the Wartime Evacuation,”Julie Summers

Read the passage from "Children of the Wartime Evacuation.”Once "home,” Gordon felt like a fish out of water. He did not like the city and he was not particularly enamoured of his mother's new boyfriend. She, in turn, realised that he was deeply unsettled and she soon wrote to his foster parents, to ask if he could return to Cornwall. He did and was adopted by them as their son. The war had given him a new family. "I loved them dearly, and thank the upbringing they gave me, which helped me into my adult life.”–"Children of the Wartime Evacuation,”Julie Summers

Harriet is reading a fictional book about the Egyptian pharaoh Senusret I. She is having trouble identifying the themes of the book. Which characteristic should she look for to identify a theme?

Oliver read this passage for school.Richard III is a Shakespearean play about a man who steals the English throne. It was a popular play in England because it was based on historical events. The story is slightly different, but it was inspired by an actual person in history. For this reason, Richard III is a historical play, even though the author changed things. Today, it is performed not just in England, but also in theaters around the world.