Test #20-In the spelling section, do what you missed on Monday (4/15), plus #26-30. If you are exempt from the vocabulary section, say so, and do only #4. Record: a) your vocabulary h/w score (/20), b) your extra credit for the week (+5 minimum, +10 maximum), c) your score on yesterday's reading check ( /5). No crossword? -10.
Spelling (30)
  1. The Lees and the Wrights corrasponded by e-mail.
  2. She didn't like the arrangment of the room.
  3. The homework handed in was illegable.
  4. The store sells a wide assorment of items.
  5. An irreguler heartbeat is not normal.
  6. He teaches illitarate adults how to read.
  7. His first atempt at cooking was a disaster.
  8. We sat in our accustumed seats on the bus.
  9. The students were very immiture when the substitute was here.
  10. Vandalism is an irresponsable act.
  11. The police hope to arrest a suspect soon.
  12. It is ilogical to wear shorts in the snow.
  13. Is the crack in the vase irreparable?
  14. The long distance seemed imeasurable.
  15. I must have more of that iresistible pie.
  16. Will you accompany her to the dance?
  17. A cast immobalizes the bones so they can heal.
  18. The fire in the museum destroyed some irreplacible paintings.
  19. Your assignement will be to write a research report.
  20. His mom was ticketed for parking in an illeagle space.
  21. How much money is in your accounte?
  22. I can assure you that he is telling the truth.
  23. Moon Shadow is an immagrant to this country.
  24. A good student will have several attrabutes.
  25. Alcohol can make even a smart person irrationle.
  26. *"not moves"
  27. *"to rest"
  28. *"to bread with"
  29. *"to secure"
  30. *"with back pledge"
Vocabulary (10)--venerate, skeptic, improvise, fastidious, impulse, haughty, forlorn, ominous, incessant, smug
  1. She forgot her lines for the scene, so she had to ____________.
  2. It was on a(n) ________ that he decided to buy another piece of chocolate.
  3. White Deer _______(ly) washed his hands and face before dinner.
  4. Uncle is a __________, who has to see it to believe it.
  5. When Uncle sits on his "throne" he has a tendency to make __________ pronouncements.
  6. "That test was easy!" he said____(ly) in that annoying way of his.
  7. The thunder rumbled _________(ly); a big storm was coming.
  8. When you whine ________(ly), people stop listening to you.
  9. The lost little girl looked very _________________ as she looked for her mommy.
  10. Even though WR often disagrees with Uncle, he really ___________(s)  the old man.
venerate, skeptic, improvise, fastidious, impulse, haughty, forlorn, ominous, incessant, smug

Dragonwings/Earthquake (20)
For the True/False questions, write "true" for the true statements, and fix the false ones.

  1. (3) What inspires Windrider to finally follow his dream? Use a quote from WR to show this. What is his plan for supporting himself with this dream?
  2. Why doesn't Windrider invite MS to move with him to Oakland? (Quote.)
  3. (2) Why do the demons keep forcing the Chinese to move from place to place after the evacuation? What effect does this have?
  4. (2) The Company's tent in Golden Gate Park was made out of ____________, and Miss Whitlaw compared stepping into it to ______________.
  5. What great honor does Uncle bestow on Miss Whitlaw?
  6. True or False: People were loud and boisterous and fired-up after the quake.
  7. True or False: Even though the disaster was so big, only a couple hundred people died.
  8. True or False: The quake was the worst natural disaster to ever to happen to a world city.
  9. True or False: Even soldiers took part in the looting after the disaster.
  10. True or False: Kids who were caught looting were shot.
  11. The number one occupation ("the central activity of life") after the quake was _____________ for food or water or such.
  12. If you weren't doing that, you were probably ____________. (Sometimes they even used force—like Windrider and Miss Whitlaw did—to persuade you.)