Test 21 (58 points possible)
  1. How would you contrast frogs and toads?
  2. She takes classes at the art institute.
  3. A marble stitch of a lion stands outside the library.
  4. Start the projector for the movie.
  5. We can reject the offer if it is too low.
  6. Carry the portable computer by the handle.
  7. Try to be objective, and not take sides.
  8. The fallen tree was an obstacle in the road.
  9. Is that superstition about black cats true?
  10. Many ranchers transport their cattle by rail.
  11. Which newspaper reporter wrote that story?
  12. Use a pump to inject air into a flat tire.
  13. What were the circumstances that made you change your mind?
  14. He knew every stanza of the poem by heart.
  15. Ouch is an example of an interjection.
  16. Where was that toy manufactured?
  17. He was a generous benefactor of the community.
  18. He worked in a factory his whole life.
  19. More than one adjective can modify a noun.
  20. That business was established in 1909.
  21. The gun hurled the projectile over 1,000 yards.
  22. The pilot had to eject when his plane was hit.
  23. The senators voted on the proposed statute.
  24. A persons taste in music is very subjective.
  25. At Lagoon, substitutes are known as guest teachers.
  1. (2) facts : opinion :: objective : subjective
  2. regular : intermittent :: starter : substitute
  3. benefactor : gift :: gun : projectile
  4. essay : paragraph :: song : stanza
  5. red : adjective :: black cat : superstition
  6. red : adjective :: d'oh : interjection
  7. make : manufacture :: place : factory
  8. throw : ject :: across : trans
  9. bene : good :: fac : make
  10. verse : stanza :: roadblock : obstacle
  11. stand against--obstacle
  12. again throw--reject
  13. make place--factory
  14. toward throw thing--objective
  1. The machine glowed. It had an aurora that flickered brightly; orange, blue, and silver.
  2. He is not an expendable member of the team; we need his help desperately.
  3. The gardener grafted a new limb onto the ailing tree.
  4. Since there were 1,000 points possible in the quarter, one or two would be a(n) infinitesimal amount.
  5. When we moved, we got rid of everything that we considered expendable
  6. In some Third World countries, the police are paid so little that they have to resort to graft to survive.
  7. She tried to make subtle hints about her friend's bad breath.
  8. A trampoline is, by definition, resilient
  9. He was a very poised very confident public speaker, he never got nervous in front of a crowd.
  10. "Then I correlate our arrival in the Past so that we meet the monster not more than two minutes before he would have died anyway."
graft, resilient, resilience, aurora, expendable, poised, subtle, infinitesimal, correlate
  1. The theme of "ASOT" is probably: a) don't mess with time, b) don't try to change the past, c) small actions can lead to huge consequences, d) don't kill butterflies.
  2. Eckels runs off the path because: a) he panics, b) he doesn't believe Travis, c) he doesn't care, d) it's fun, e) none of the above
  3. Eckels attitude before they spotted the T-Rex was: a) serious, b) worried about danger, c) overconfident, d) none of the above.
  4. After the dinosaur is dead, Travis: a)  threatens to leave Eckels behind, b) tells him to clean the mud off his shoes, c) goes and retrieves the bullets from the dinosaur, d) none of the above
  5. The first thing Eckels does when he sees the butterfly in the mud on his boot is: a) try to clean it up, b) check to see if it was really dead, c) throw the boot across the room, d) ask who won the election, e) none of the above.
  6. True or False: Everything seems normal when they first get back to the office.
  7. True or False: The man behind the desk thinks that the right man won the election.
  8. True or False: Eckels knew that Travis was going to shoot him.