Test #12
Spelling +:
1. He did not think he was werthy of the award he was given.
2. Please read the instuctions carefully before you plug your AlphaSmart into the computer.
3. I think what we have here is a fellure to communicate.
4. Talking during a test is regarded as cheating.
5. The pollicy on KBAR is that no late signatures are accepted.
6. The mountain road was windey and narow.
7. We made impresions of our feet in the concreet.
8. This book is the first in a seeries of three.
9. My wife likes mistery books with many plot twists.
10. Studying beforehand will inable you to do well on the test.
11. That estableshment has been there for years.
12. The teacher asks the class if anyone knew what the "first person singuler" pronoun was.
13. Joe had a very good sugestion for our project.
14. We gathered to comend and applaud the heroes.
15. After I begged my mom for four hours, she finally rilented and let me go to the party.
16. The TV was on a raised plattform.
17. That assinement is worth forty-five points.
18. We were waiting for the flood waters to receed so we could move back into our home.
19. Going into the burning building took a lot of curage.
20. Joey is a very consientious  worker who always does his best.
21. He received  only a miner  bruse in the accident.
22. In the begining of the year, we learned how to spell that word.
23. An ID is recquired to get into that club.
24. You can't be serious about running away from home!
25. Fighting fires is an honerable proffesion.
26. What is the answer to #12?
27. The sun has a negative (affect, effect) on your skin. Some of these (affects, effects) are skin cancer and premature aging. (+1 for definition of premature.)

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Earthquake:
True/False (Write "true" for the true statements and make the false ones true using complete sentences.)
1. The earthquake happened in the middle of the day when most people were at work.
2. The quake was the worst natural disaster to ever to happen to a world city.
3. People were loud and boisterous and fired-up after the quake.
4. One of the biggest fires to occur afterward was called "the Chicken-Fried Steak Fire."
5. Even soldiers took part in the looting after the disaster.
6. Looters were usually arrested and fined if they were caught.
7. The Army was sent in and martial* law was declared after the quake. (*Law in the time of war.)
Fill in the Blank
8. People grabbed anything they could carry. One man was even seen rolling a __________ down the street.
9. The number one occupation ("the central activity of life") after the quake was _________________ for food or water or such. (+1 for correct use of an old vocabulary word.)
10. If you weren’t doing that you were probably ____________. (Sometimes they even used force—a la Windrider and Miss Whitlaw—to persuade you.)
11. When they finally had to evacuate the house, Miss Whitlaw took what she called the "essentials of life:__________(name at least three.) What did Robin carry to protect them? (Be specific)

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Vocabulary:
1. After the earthquake many of the rich who were once (impulsive, haughty, forlorn, wistful) were now humbled and looking for crusts of bread like everyone else.
2. After the earthquake, San Francisco looked as (desolate, auspicious, fastidious, wizened) as the surface of the moon.
3. Robin (flounced, improvised, patronized, reciprocated) angrily out of the room, waving her arms around.
4. A lack of studying will lead to a(n) (insolent, impulsive, inept, improbable) performance on the test.
5. It was on a(n) (cleaver, impulse, inept, venerable) that he decided to buy another peice of chocolate.
6. Before the earthquake, MS has a(n) (unruly, ominous, methodical, wizened) feeling that everything would come crashing down.
7. We call this kind of feeling a(n) _________________.
8. I dreamed (fastidiously, wistfully, unruly, smugly) of the day I would be done with school.
9. Moon Shadow thinks that Robin talks (luminously, embroidering, sullenly, incessantly) and monopolizes every conversation.
10. "Rocket science is easy!" he said (smugly, unruly, forlornly, schematically) in that annoying way of his.
11. Robin watched (unruly, ominously, forlornly, wizened) as the kite drifted away.
12. She forgot her lines for the scene, so she had to (improvise, patronize, undulate, venerate).
13. People in China (flail, flourish, protrude, venerate) their elders much more than we do in the US.
14. Joey is a very (inept, wistful, impulsive, forlorn) boy, who has trouble comtrolling his urges.
15. The (methodical, schematic, tunic, muse) for the inside of a VCR is very complicated

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Dragonwings:
1. How do Uncle and Father get back together? (Who helps them?)
2. Why does MS carry a cross in his pocket?
3. "You...you Sunday Christians!" Who? What? What?
4. Why does the Company's building survive when so many others fell?
5. How does Miss Whitlaw win over Uncle? (2+ ways)
6. What is the bad thing that balances the good one—the Company’s friendship with the Whitlaws?
7. Why is this happening?
8. What solution was there to the problem?
9. What inspires Windrider to follow his dream? What is his plan for supporting himself with this dream?
10. Why doesn't Windrider invite MS to move to Oakland with him?