Test #13 -- Be sure to record your extra credit for the week (+3 min./+10max.) and your vocabulary homework score ( /15).  As always, be on the lookout for other mistakes to fix for extra credit. Time Limit: 15 minutes.
Spelling. Do what you missed on Monday. 
All do #26 - #28.
  1. The force of the eruption shook the ground.
  2. The pilots put on a spectaculer show.
  3. I jumped at the abrupte knock at the door.
  4. A spectater in the stands caught the ball.
  5. What a spectacal the circus parade was!
  6. Vivid details bring a discription to life.
  7. We will examine the spesamen in science class.
  8. The rain caused an interuption of the game.
  9. She wants to suscribe to that magazine.
  10. Loud noises disrupt my sleep.
  11. The inspecter checked the roof for holes.
  12. Can water pipes rupture in cold weather?
  13. I rispect him for his work with the homeless.
  14. The author sent her manascript to a publishor.
  15. It is fun to speckulate on our future careers.
  16. Each asspect of the plan had to be considered.
  17. I must transscribe my notes from the lecture.
  18. Can you read the inscription on the monument?
  19. I suspect they are late because of traffic.
  20. He was banckrupt after the stock market crash.
  21. A rainbow is made up of the spectrem of colors.
  22. His disguise actually made him more conspicous instead of less.
  23. The salesman made a lot of phone calls, looking for perspective custumers.
  24. Try to discribe the robber for me.
  25. In retraspect, it seems as though I made a mistake.
  26. "between burst thing" = *_______
  27. "across write" = *_________
  28. "backwards look" = *__________
 Vocabulary--
allay, dignity, scrutinize, 
assuage,  pummel, assail
  1. easy-going : nonchalant :: peruse : ________
  2. assault : battery :: assail : __________
  3. brave : gallant :: pride : ________
  4. rich : destitute :: skim : __________
  5. hurt feelings : _________ :: fears : allay
  6. calm : _______ :: soak : steep
  7. ramshackle: dilapidated :: comfort : ________
  8. rescue : assail :: foolishness : __________
  9. direct : circuitous :: assail : ________
  10. Robert said that the sonnets (love poems) had _________(ed) his broken heart. 

149 words possible. 4+ letters. 10 = +1
"Theme for English B"
  1. "Being me, it will not be white." a) He is turning in his theme on colored paper. b) His life experiences make him what he is, and that will come out in his writing. c) The teacher will automatically be prejudiced against his paper. d) The teacher will be able to tell it was written by a black person.
  2. "I guess you learn from me— although you’re older—and white— and somewhat more free." Langston Hughes is probably saying...a) that he has many things to teach his teacher. b) that his teacher can't really ever understand what his life is really like. c) that older people are sometimes wrong. d) None of the above. e) All of the above.
  3. "I am the only colored student in my class. The steps from the hill lead down into Harlem, through a park, then I cross St. Nicholas, Eighth Avenue, Seventh, and then I come to the Y, the Harlem Branch Y, where I take the elevator up to my room, sit down and write this page:" He makes a big deal about how he gets home to do this paper because... a) he lives in a dangerous neighborhood. b) he's trying to show how far he has to walk. c) he's making the point that he lives in a world very different than that of teacher. d) he's trying to show how poor he is.
  4. "Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you—Then, it will be true." The word "true" in line #5 most likely means: a) factually correct, b) believable , c) told straight, without any extra details  d) truly personal and important.
  5. Bop is a type of...a) gun, b) jazz music, c) blues music, d) drumming, e) none of the above.