Test #1 Use a separate sheet of paper for your answers. Be sure to read the directions for each section carefully. Be sure to record: a) your KBAR total for the week ( /40), b) your score on the Outsiders section of Wednesday's quiz ( /14), and c) any extra credit you may have earned this week.
Part One: Spelling (Do only the ones you missed on Monday's pretest. Watch out for extra credit mistakes to fix.)
  1. I read your magazine columne every month.
  2. Is she a sports columnest for that newspaper?
  3. He will desine, and then build the house.
  4. We must designaite a new group leeder.
  5. Is this loan your only det?
  6. Did the bank debit my account?
  7. The prince is the hair to the throne.
  8. Ted will inherrit his aunt's property.
  9. She had to haisten home to avoid the rain.
  10. The thief left in great haiste.
  11. My favorite season is autume.
  12. Red and brown are autumnal colors.
  13. Her choice was to resigne or be fired.
  14. Meg handed in her resignation from the firm.
  15. Many people dout the boy's wild tales.
  16. He is dubius about his chances of winning the odds are not good.
  17. A sled is a vehical that has no wheels.
  18. The road is closed to vehiculer traffic.
  19. Is her limp due to a sore leg muscel?
  20. Marathon runners are often musculer.
  21. Please assigne each person a number.
  22. Make sure you ask for a receipt for your purchase.
  23. They called the bombe squad to deal with the grenade they found.
  24. The exaust from cars is a major source of pollution.
  25. The king's riegn lasted for 26 years.
Part Two: Vocabulary: Write the word that best fits each blank. One word is not used. Be sure to add any prefixes or suffixes that may be needed. Be sure to spell the word correctly. Write exempt if you are and can prove it, and then do only #9--direction are next to #8.
infer, bleak, nonchalant, gingerly, rueful, savvy, conform, sage, denotation, connotation
1. "Okay," I said ____________(ly), "might as well." Pony was trying to act cool with the girls.
2. I handled the delicate vase very ____________.
3. Even though he may not be "book-smart" he has a lot of ___________ about the world.
4. Some people might have called him weird, but he preferred to be called a (non-)__________(ist).
5. The landscape of the moon is lifeless and very ________.
6. The old man was considered the ________ of the village because of all his experience and wisdom.
7. "I shouldn’t have done that," he said with a _______ sigh.
8. Try to _______ what the underlined word in the next sentence means by the way it is used. Write the word as well as your definition as your answer to #9.
9. Nobody could fathom why Two-Bit liked school. He was still a junior at eighteen and a half!
10. For Pony, the ______ of the word 'dropout' was the image of somebody like Dally, rather than Sodapop.
 

Part Three: The Outsiders
1.(6) In Chapter One, we could tell that the main conflict of the novel was going to be: (Copy the bold-faced parts.)
(a) _______ vs. _______.  We have also seen evidence of the following conflicts:
(b) Pony vs. ________ and _________, (c) Johnny vs. ________, (d) Dallas vs. _________.
2. (4) How is Dally's attitude about being labeled greaser different than Pony's? Use a quote from each to back up what you say. (Suggestion: Look on pages 17 and 22!) Follow the example below for your answer.

Dally is _________ of being a greaser. Quote:________________________.
Pony is _________. Quote: __________________.
Part Four: Adjectives
1. (4) An adjective is a word that modifies or [a]_________ a noun or pronoun. It usually answers the questions,
[b] _____________, [c] _______________, or [d]____________.
List the adjectives you find in each sentence below.
2. (4) He was a hairy bear, he was the scariest bear I had ever seen.
3. (2) Ever since being jumped, Johnny has been a nervous wreck.