Wednesday, 1/31/01 (Extra Credit) Where does Thursday come before Wednesday?
Vocabulary Pretest: Be sure to add any suffixes as needed. You may have to change the ending of the original word to add the suffix. Look for mistakes to fix for extra credit. You will use some words more than once, and you will use them all at least once.
1. Even though we were losing in the first half, I knew we would eventually  _______.
2. When I asked if she wanted to go skydiving, she ________, and said she was scarred.
3. The stain on the white shirt stood out ______(ly).
4. As far as what happens when we die there is a lot of ________(ion), but no facts.
5. "Don't cry over spilled milk" is an old expression that means not to ______ too much over mistakes that you can't change.
6. The man swore ______(ly) after he hit his thumb with a hammer.
7. A comic book collecter must be very _______ when it comes to the condition of the comic. The smallest flaw can effect the value immensely.
8. Very few things annoy teachers more than __________(ce).
9. As he sat in the principals office, he hoped for _______ intervention; maybe an angel would swoop in and save him. (Not.)
10. The cheesecake at that restaurant is simply ________.
speculate, divine, brood, prevail, lurid, discerning, stark, demurred, impertinent
 

Poem #435
1. Emily Dickinson felt that "the Majority" always prevailed on the question of...a) What is the right thing to do. b) Who's weird and who isn't. c) Who's cool and who isn't. d) Who's important and who isn't. e) All of the above.

2. The poem says that if a person looked very carefully...a) He would see that everyone is weird. b) He would see that what might look weird really isn't. c) He would see that what might seem sane really isn't. d) All of the above. e) b and c.

3. The poem says that if you disagree with the majority...a) You're weird. b) You're stupid. c) You're considered dangerous. d) You're doing the right thing.
"The Other Foot"
1) The expression "the shoe is on the other foot now" means...a) Your shoes are on the wrong feet. b) "Treat others the way you would like to be treated." c) "The tables have turned." d) You walk funny.
2) Willie wanted the paint and stencils to...a) "brand" the incoming white man. b) paint signs that said "Go Home." c) paint a message of hate on the rocket. d) paint the same sort of signs he grew up seeing and hating.
3) On page 36, when Hattie thinks about "tearing down walls", what do the walls represent? a) The people's hatred. b) The society that the black Martians have created for themselves. c) The facade they use to hide their real selves. d) All of the above. e) None of the above.
4) The white man is there to...a) Say "We're sorry." b) Ask for help. c) Help steal Mars from the blacks. d) Get away from earth.
5) How does the white man know whether a certain person is alive or dead, or whether a particular building is still standing or not? a) Everything was destroyed, so he knows that they're all gone. b) He has a computer inside his ship which can look it up. c) He's been there. d) He's in radio contact with Earth.
6) What does that tree represent?  a) Willie's home back on Earth. b) The destruction of the Earth by the white man. c) All the injustices that the white man inflicted on the black man. d) The death of Willie's father.
7) How does this story illustrate the idea of "turning the other cheek"? a) The blacks let themselves be treated badly. b) Willie and the others didn't try to get revenge. c) The white man was paid back for all the bad things he had done. d) The blacks finally had justice for the treatment at the hands of the white man. e) c and d
8) Willie and the others decided to "turn the other cheek" because...a) There was nothing left to hate. b) They realized that the white man was lonely just like them. c) They realized that the white man had turned his hatred on himself. d) The white man had already been punished enough. e) All of the above. f) a, b, and c