test03

Test #03 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 score on the Outsiders questions ( /15), your KBAR score for the week (/40), and c) any extra credit you may have earned this week. No crossword? -10.
Part One: Spelling. Do only the ones you missed on Monday's pretest. Watch out for extra credit mistakes to fix.
1. Is the univerce endless?
2. A billon of anything is almost impossible to imagine.
3. I can see almost a mile with my binoculers.
4. One leg of the camera trypod is bent.
5. Each snowflake is yunique.
6. Please sing this song in unason.
7. Dan can do a tripel flip.
8. We sat in a semicircle around the fire.
9. Fold each strip into the shape of a triangel.
10. Both tires on his bycicle were flat.
11. How can we unafy the different groups?
12. The triplettes often wear matching clothes.
13. Use a semicollon to connect parts of a sentence that could be sentences on their own.
14. Swimmers have strong bisceps and upper arms.
15. We have six bimonthly art classes a year.
16. The thirteen colonies plegded their unaty.
17. A treo of clowns ran around the ring.
18. My mom is a student at the univercity.
19. Our bianual meetings are in spring and fall.
20. Will our team be playing in the semifinals?
21. Please obzerve what happens next in the experiment.
22. What a gigantick bean stalk!
23. The bus will exsplode if it goes less than 50 miles per hour.
24. The leader tried to yunite the warring tribes.
25. California has more bilingal people than most states.

Part Two: Vocabulary Write the word that best fits each blank. Be sure to add any prefixes or suffixes that may be needed. If you are exempt, write "exempt", do #10 only, and then move to Part Three.
premonition, foreshadowing, bootleg, stereotype, incredulous, credulous, facade, elude, fathom, gallant
1. Even though Pony liked the poem, it's meaning still _________(ed) him.
2. Pony had trouble __________(ing) the poem.
3. Buck Merril made most of his money on fixed races and a little __________(ing).
4. Pony had a ____________ when he entered the creepy, old church.
5. I __________(ly) believed the con man's lies.
6. Johnny thought that Dally was ______ like those Southern gentlemen in Gone with the Wind.
7. Pony's jaw dropped ________(ly) when Cherry said she might fall in love with Dally.
8. One of the themes of The Outsiders is that we should look as people as individuals, and not as _____________(s).
9. Both Richard Cory (the guy from the poem) and Cherry hid their real selves behind a ___.
10. (4) a) uni = ? b) bi = ? c) tri = ? d) cred = ?

Part Three: The Outsiders
1. Give an example of irony from Chapter 5. (Hint: Johnny.)
2. How did Soda figure out that Dally knew where the boys ran to?
3. Pony's first feeling when he wakes up in the church is...a) fear. b) confusion.
c) cold. d) relief.
4. (Quote) (2) Where are the police looking for Pony and Johnny? Why?
5. (2) Explain how the poem "Richard Cory" is related to Cherry's statement, "Things are rough all over."

Part Four: Commas and Grammar
1. (?) Insert the commas in the proper places in the sentence below.
I had cried too if you want to know the truth because Soda never really wanted anything except a horse and he'd lost his.
2. (7) Copy each of the underlined words and identify it as noun, verb or adjective.
Mickey Mouse was a dark-gold buckskin, sassy and ornery, and not much more than a colt. He would come when Soda called him. He wouldn't come for anyone else.

New! Words must be at least four (4) letters long!