Friday, 12/10/99
Vocabulary + Tom Sawyer + Mechanics Check
If you are exempt from the vocabulary section, skip questions 2-7, writing "exempt" for each one.
Answer each question below using complete sentences.
1.What happenned on Dec. 7, 1941?
2.(2)Where might one saunter?
3.(2)Give an example of something that might make you look haggard.
4.(2)Give an example of something your mom might be appalled at.
5.(2)Would you like to be omniscient? Why or why not?
6.(2)Give an example of someone being fickle.
7.(2)Give an example of something you would want to do inconspicuously.
Rewrite each sentence below perfectly correctly.
8.(3)A crowd of more than 10,000 people are exspected for the consert.
9. (1)Jason is bright, creative, and works hard.
10.(2)Joe is taller then me.
11.(1)While standing on the dock, a boat sank right in front of Joe and me.
Answer each question below using complete sentences.
12.(2) What does Mark Twain mean when he says that the boys gave each
other "eloquent nudges"? (p157, p169)
13.(3)"...but I've seen such a beautiful country in my dream. I reckon we are
going there." (Chapter 31) (Who is talking? What is going on? What is this "country"?)
14.(3)What is Injun Joe's "revenge" job? (Whom does he want revenge on? Why does he want revenge? Whom does he really want revenge on?)
15.(2)How do the boys "blow it" and not get the treasure the first time they
saw it?
16.(3)What did Tom and Becky have in the way of provisions inside the
cave?
17.(2)"It's a name that can open this door night or day, lad!--and welcome!"
(Chapter 30) Who's talking? What is "unusual" about this statement?
Extra Credit: There are two mechanical mistakes in this exercise, besides the ones in sentences 8-11. Find and fix for one point each.
Extra Credit: a) Which is better--an old one-hundred-dollar bill or a new one? b) When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, this day will be as far from Friday as this day was from Friday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. What day is it?
 

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