What Are the Parts of a Book?

About This Quiz & Worksheet

A book is made up of several parts with various types of pages. You'll be asked to distinguish different book parts and understand their purposes.

Quiz & Worksheet Goals

This quiz and worksheet will ask you to:

• Recall what's found in a book's first part
• Identify the part of a book that contains word definitions
• Know who typically writes a book's preface
• Understand the similarities between a book's forward and preface
• Determine what is and what isn't included on a copyright page

Skills Practiced

These questions will give you practice applying the following skills:

• Reading comprehension - ensure you take away the most important information from the related lesson on the different parts of books
• Knowledge application - use what you know about book parts to answer why the forward and preface are similar
• Information recall - access your knowledge regarding who usually writes the preface

Additional Learning

To get a more thorough understanding of these book parts, read the related lesson called What Are the Parts of a Book? The lesson will help you:

• Describe the characteristics of the title page and frontspiece
• Understand the purpose of the dedication and acknowledgement pages
• Learn about the function of a book's bibliography and index