Wednesday, 4/11/01
Correct Test #20.   Go over Vocabulary Practice.
Dragonwings and Video Check. (20) For the True/False questions, write "true" for the true statements, and fix the false ones.

1. True or False: Even though the disaster was so big, only a couple hundred people died.
2. True or False: The quake was the worst natural disaster to ever to happen to a world city.
3. True or False: People were loud and boisterous and fired-up after the quake.
4. True or False: One of the biggest fires to occur afterward was called "the Chicken-Fried Steak Fire."
5. True or False: Even soldiers took part in the looting after the disaster.
6. True or False: Kids who were caught looting were shot.
7. What was the "wall" around Chinatown made of?
8. The number one occupation ("the central activity of life") after the quake was _____________ for food or water or such. (+1 for correct use of a recent vocabulary word.)
9. If you weren't doing that, you were probably ____________. (Sometimes they even used force—like Windrider and Miss Whitlaw did—to persuade you.)
10. (2) The Company's tent in Golden Gate Park was made out of ____________, and Miss Whitlaw compared stepping into it to _____________
11. What great honor does Uncle bestow on Miss Whitlaw?
12. (3) Match each of Uncle's pronouncements with the action he took:
• A) "Superior men help one another in time of need."
• B) "The superior man tends to his own garden."
• C) "Well, someone with sense better nursemaid the lot of you young rascals."

Vocabulary Pretest--skeptical, improvise, venerate, fastidious, impulsive, haughty, forlorn, ominous, incessant, smug

1. The guitarist was very good at _________(ing) solos. He could make up great melodies off the top of his head.
2. Uncle is very __________ of Windrider's dream.
3. After the earthquake, many of the rich who were once __________ were now humbled, and standing in line like everyone else.
4. Robin watched __________(ly) as the glider drifted away.
5. He was very _________ about his excellent performance on the test.
6. People in China _________ their elders much more than we do in the US.
7. Lefty __________(ly) wiped his fingers on the napkin...and folded it neatly.
8. Larry is a very ___________ kid who has trouble controlling his urges.
9. On Venus, the ___________ rain made Margot miss the sun.
10. When Uncle sits on his "throne" he has a tendency to make __________ pronouncements.