Spelling Test #14 (45p.) -- Use a separate sheet of paper. Be sure to record your extra credit for the week (2/19 - 2/21). Cross out the first four points (minimum). Record your score on the first "The Other Foot" quiz ( /11). If you are missing your crossword puzzle, write "XW -10" at the top of your paper. Everyone should do the second word in #9.
  1. He writes the most puzzling mystary stories.
  2. Terms like irony, flashback, conflict, and foreshadowing are called litarary terms.
  3. The spy was accused of treachary against his country.
  4. Can you prove your theary about the comet?
  5. Her bravary resulted in lives being saved.
  6. My primary goal is to graduate with honors.
  7. His skill with the basketball is legendery.
  8. Please don't resort to fourgery if you forget to get your KBAR signed.
  9. (2) His relatives are burried in that sematery.
  10. This is not elementery school any more.
  11. Scientists study the skies at an obzervatory.
  12. A secratary should be a good typist.
  13. The baby's nursary was painted blue.
  14. My Dad didn't think I had done a satisfactery job cutting the grass.
  15. The unicorn is an imaginery animal.
  16. Having a large vocabulery makes reading much easier.
  17. Nothing unusual happened on this ordinery day.
  18. The machinary runs better when it is oiled.
  19. The fence marks the boundery of the land.
  20. She got a temperary job during her vacation from school.
  21. She was insulted by the derogatory comment about her hair.
  22. The itinarary for our trip was seven cities in ten days.
  23. The signs Willie ("The Other Foot") wanted to paint were discriminutory.
  24. My mom sent me to the groshery store.
  25. Is your personality shaped more by heredatary factors or environmental ones?
  26. This praliminary races determine who will be in the finals.
  27. We watched a documentery on the History Channel.
  28. The extra credit is strictly voluntery; don't do it if you don't want to.
  29. He has an almost photographic memery.
  30. They put the prisoner into solatary confinement.
"The Other Foot" Finish reading the story, then answer the questions below. Write out the answer following the letter.
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's main purpose in coming is 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. e) c and d. f) All of the above.
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
9) What is the first thing Willie paints a sign on/in? a) Train car. b) Restaurant. c) Bathroom. d) Trolley car. e) Theater.
10) How old was Willie when he left Earth? a) 12. b) 13. c) 16. d) 20. e) Just a baby.
11) At the end, when Willie says for the first time he "really seen the white man" he means...a) he had never seen a white person before. b) he didn't remember what white people were like. c) he finally saw the white man as a person too. d) none of the above.
12) Find an example of a metaphor or a simile in the story and copy it. (Not counting the one mentioned in #3.)
13) The protagonist of this story is...
14) Besides the obvious conflict between white and black, explain another conflict in this story.