Test #11. Attach your MTP and your crossword
(+8 and exempt from maximum) if you have it. Attach your study questions
if you did them. Record extra credit for the week (+4 min./+10 max), vocabulary
h/w ( /20), and your score on yesterday's reading check ( /7).
(27) Spelling. Do those you missed on Monday plus
#1 and #27.
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It was like rats desserting a sinking ship.
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We had ice cream for desert.
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The trap door gave accsess to the garret.
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You need a drain to get rid of ecsess water.
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The dog's continuall barking kept me awake.
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The continous hum of the fan was relaxing.
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These hearty plants can stand the cold.
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A hardy meal will give us new energy.
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He was able to make his dream a realety.
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We sold our house with the help of a realty agent.
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I was startled by his bazarre costume.
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One booth at the bazaare sells tie-dyed shirts.
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He had to dress formelly for the important occasion.
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He was the artist formally known as Prince, whose
name is now an unpronounceable symbol.
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The horse easily jumped the high hurdel.
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We watched the express train hurtel by.
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What medication did the doctor perscribe?
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School rules prescribe cheating.
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I was very self-consious at first.
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Does your conscious bother you when you lie?
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I would advice you to get a job.
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That's good advise.
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I don't know whether to wear a jacket, because...
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...the wheather is so changeable.
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Everyone accept him is going to the party.
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I will graciously except her gift.
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Draw two lines that diverge and then
converge.
(10) Vocabulary. Skip if exempt. proscribe,
earnest, picturesque, marked, canvass, continuous, continual
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After the rewrite, his paper was ________(ly) better.
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The Taliban _____(ed) television and music, which they claimed
were against the laws of Islam.
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The __________ ringing in his ears is from listening to too
much loud music.
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The boys _________(ed) the matter inwardly, trying to think
of all the options.
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Skateboarding is __________ (ed) in the downtown area.
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The volunteers _____(ed) the neighborhood, talking to people,
and trying to get them to vote.
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Huck was on a ____________ watch at the tavern. He never
left his post.
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(2) The searchers ____________(ly) _________(ed) the
cave, looking for Tom and Becky, but after three days they were ready to
give up.
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"Are you in real deadwood ________?" asked Huck. "Is it true?"
(10) Pronouns. All do. List the pronouns you find
in each sentence in the vocabulary section. If there aren't any pronouns
in a sentence, write "none."
(5) Suffixes. All do. Using a suffix, change each
word into a different part-of-speech as shown.
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defy (v.) ---> ________________ (adj.)
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# 6 (adj.) ---> _____________(adv.)
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#17 (v.) ---> _________________ (n.)
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#21 (v.) ---> _______________ (n.)
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#26 (v.) ---> ___________________ (n.)
Tom Sawyer. Do only if you don't have study questions.
Attach study questions if you do have them. For the multiple-choice
type questions,
write out the correct choice--do not simply
write the letter. Answer all the other questions using
complete sentences.
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(2) How did Tom and Becky get out of the cave?
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(2) Once everyone found out about the treasure, what happened
to every "haunted" house in St. Petersburg?
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(1) The widow let Huck (if he asked first)... A)
smoke, B) go fishing, C) cuss, D) scratch in front of people, E) all of
the above.
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(3) "The boys in this town will take more trouble, and
fool away more time hunting up 6 bits worth of old iron...than they would
to make twice the money at regular work." Who? What? Why is this
ironic?
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(1) Where does Tom find Huck when he runs away from the
widow?
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(2) How does Tom get Huck to go back to the widow?
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(3) What are three complaints Huck had about the widow?
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(2) Why does Mark Twain stop the story where he does?
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(1) The total amount of the treasure was about...A) five
thousand dollars, B) $12,000, C) several hundred dollars, D) a thousand
dollars.
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(1) Tom and Becky were in the cave for...A) 2 days, B)
3 days, C) 4 days, D) a fortnight.
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(1) What was the boys' income after the judge invested
their money?
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(1) Becky's dad compared Tom's lie that saved Becky from
a whipping over the torn book to...?