Test #17- Record (with the date and title) any extra credit you may have earned during the week (minimum =5, maximum = 10). If you do not have your crossword, write "xw -10." Record ("vocab 18/18") your vocabulary homework score. Title each section of the test on your own paper. Spelling section: Do what you missed on Monday, plus #26-30. Vocabulary section: If you are exempt, say so, and do #5 only.

1. How would you contrast cookies and toads?
2. She takes classes at the art instatute.
3. A marble statchue of a lion is at the entrance.
4. Start the projecter for the slide show.
5. We can raject the offer if it is too low.
6. Carry the portible computer in its case.
7. My objective is to finish the job by noon.
8. The fallen tree was an obstacal in the road.
9. Tom and Huck believed in many silly superstitons.
10. Many ranchers tranport their cattle by rail.
11. Which newspaper raportor wrote that story?
12. Use a pump to inject air into the flat tire.
13. What circumstantes made you change your mind?
14. He had memorized every stansa of the poem.
15. Homer's famous "d'oh" is an example of an interjection.
16. A portor carried our bags to our hotel room.
17. More than one adjactive can modify a noun.
18. They deported the illegal immigrant.
19. A person's taste in music is subjective; each person has his or her own opinion.
20. The senators voted on the proposed statute; beginning a curfew for teens under 18.
21. His writing portfolio is very impressive.
22. Most of the laws in this country are based on the Constatution.
23. The state now has educational standerds, which say what students at each grade level should know.
24. The projectial traveled at 300 miles per hour.
25. At Laguna, they call substatute teachers guest teachers.
26. ject = _______
27. Something that is static does not ___________.
28. *"again carrier" = ________
29. *"away from carried" = _________
30. *"between throw thing" = ____________

Vocabulary. tumultuous, compound, savor, slacken, apparatus, metaphor, simile, subjective, objective

1. If Tom and Huck's money had earned _____ interest, they would have had even more money.
2. The storm finally _________(ed), so our plane could take off.
3. The crowd ______________(ly) pushed its way up to the stage.
4. keep : dispose :: subtract : ____________
5. (2) "You should _____ every tasty bite of life." This sentence is an example of a(n)______.
6. Something went wrong with the sound __________, so we couldn't hear the movie.
7. The house shook _____________(ly) as the earthquake struck.
8. One little error, ______________(ed) over millions of years, adds up to something huge.
9. motivation : inspiration :: contraption : _________

Mr. Morton -- Skip if you are exempt. ID the subject and predicate of each sentence.

1. Everyone in the audience stopped what they were doing when he stepped to the microphone.
2. There on its back was a large tortoise.
3. My whole family heard the famous vocalist sing.
4. A longer passing period would be a good idea. (2 word predicate/verb)
5. During the winter, a lot of birds fly south.

Margot -- Be sure to copy the answer, not just the letter.

1. What does this passage show about the change in the students' attitude?----"They stood as if someone had driven them with so many stakes into the floor. They looked at each other and then looked away...They could not meet each other's glances. Their faces were solemn and pale. They looked at their hands and feet, their faces down." (p110) a) They now feel sorry for Margot. b) They are sad about the rain starting again so soon. c) They now realize how cruel they have been. d) All of the above. e) None of the above.
2. What does the title of the story mean?  a) It all happened on a summer day. b) Since the period of sun was so short, the kids were forced to live a whole summer in a day. c) The summer seemed like it lasted only a day. d) The days are long in the summer.
3. What point is made about Margot when the story says that the rain had washed "the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair"?  a) The lack of sun is making her pale. b) She hated the rain. c) She was very sensitive to rain. d) The rain was draining the life out of her.
4. Locking Margot up is especially mean because...a) she is afraid of the dark. b) sunshine is so rare on this planet. c) she has no friends. d) she cries when she is locked up.
5. The main purpose of the story is probably...a) to provide a picture of what everyday life on Venus might be like. b) to show how weather conditions can affect your personality. c) To show how nine year old kids are. d) to show how differences can make some people a target for others.
6. The main conflict of the story was...a) the kids of Venus vs. the rain and nature. b) William vs. Margot, c) The kids vs. someone different. d) Margot vs. the teacher for not helping her. e) the kids vs. themselves.
7. The first thing the kids notice as soon as the rain stops is...a) the warmth. b) the brightness. c) the mud everywhere. d) the silence.
8. Ray Bradbury compares the jungle on Venus to...a) tentacles of an octopus. b) the color of white cheese. c) the color of the moon. d) All of the above. e) None of the above.
9. (2) Find an example of simile and a metaphor in the the story.