Test #20. Record: a) your vocabulary h/w score (/25), b) your extra credit for the week (+5 minimum, +10 maximum), c) your scores on the two reading checks ( /5, /5).  Please attach your crossword and study questions to your  test. No crossword? -10.
Spelling

1. (2) assure, illogical, corespond, assignment, all correct
2. (2) musing, exasperating, patronizing, flouncing, all correct
3. (2) dirigible, irresistable, irrational, assure, all correct
4. (2) assignment, assuring, immobilize, irrepairable, all correct
5. (2) accompany, irregular, illiterate, assortment, all correct
6. (2) irreplacable, arrest, muse, improbable, all correct
7. (2) attributes, immigrent, illegal, attempt, all correct
8. (2) flailing, failing, begging, immeasureable, all correct
9. (2) intuition, arrangment, irresponsible, patronize, all correct
10. * Black Dog : irresponsible :: Humpty Dumpty : ___________
11. *to read : illiterate :: to be read : ___________

Vocabulary--Skip, writing "exempt" if you are.
muse, patronize, intuitive, improbable, unruly, flounce, flail, exasperate, simper

1. I'm tired of your __________ excuses.
2. The pitch was too fast for me, and I just _________(ed) at it and missed.
3. Tom Sawyer was one of the best at embroidering reality, and Aunt Polly was often very ________________(ed) by his various "lies."
4. undependable : irresponsible :: unlikely : ________
5. I sat around all afternoon, daydreaming and _______(ing) on my future.
6. Father didn’t actually know anything about horseless carriages, but somehow he had a(n) ________ feel for fixing things.
7. When I asked her how she knew something was wrong, she said, "It's just Mother's __________(ion)."
8. "She smoothed her long skirt...and sat down with a little_________ like a young girl."
9. In the mornings Steve’s hair is usually _____ and hard to manage; much like this class sometimes.
10. scholar : prudent :: psychic : ___________

Dragonwings (15)

1. (2) What new information about Windrider was revealed in Chapter 4?
2. (3) I do think you’ve grown an inch since you’ve been here." (p70) Who’s talking? What’s going on? What does he/she mean?
3. What does Father mean when he says, "You've been using Hand Clap's ruler again"? (p70)
4. (4) When they go to look for Black Dog, WR and MS cover the a) _______, Lefty goes to the b) _________, Hand Clap goes to the c) ________, and White Deer goes to the d) _______ .
5. How did BD get the money for his opium binge?
6. (2) "...I am going to take definite pleasure in tromping every worm, cockroach, and fly that I meet." (p74) Who's talking? What is going on?
7. What "decidedly demonic talent" did Windrider use to save Black Dog?
8. How did Father get Black Dog to come home?