Three short writing samples, and follow up questions, to help students recognize the author's purpose, the mood and tone of the writing sample, and to do a short character analysis of the author to discover the voice of the writing. There are no set answers, as the questions are posed to help formulate a discussion of answers among classmates.Want more Test practice for language arts? Check out my store for a download that contains this, and 5 other printable activities. Also, Please visit my we