Spellling Test #2. 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 vocabulary homework score (/20), your KBAR score (/35), and c) any extra credit you may have earned this week. Cross out 5 points of your bonus credit for the week's minimum. You get to keep the rest. No crossword? -10. Watch out for extra credit mistakes to fix.
Part One: (35) Spelling, Etc. Do the ones you missed on Monday's pretest, as well as 26-35 (roots/suffixes).
  1. Which composer wrote that symphoney?
  2. Please speak into the microphone so we can hear you.
  3. Old phonagraph records can sometimes be valuable.
  4. The dancers studied the choreography for the recital.
  5. He claims to have Babe Ruth's autagraph.
  6. Most people call an autamobile a car.
  7. May I use your telaphone to call home?
  8. His report's bibleography listed six sources.
  9. Look up the fonetic spelling of that word; I want to see how its pronounced.
  10. We studied the major rivers in geography.
  11. I used special film to take that photagraph.
  12. The graphix on his web page were cool.
  13. A paragraph should only deal with one topic.
  14. The burglar tripped the autamatic alarm.
  15. In the "Old West," people often sent messages by telagraph.
  16. Each award certificate was written in caligraphy.
  17. My autobiography covers the first ten years of my life.
  18. Which band instrament do you play?
  19. He is a musiscian in the band.
  20. The audiance was very respectful of the performers.
  21. There was an intermision between the two acts of the play.
  22. What a preformance the singer gave!
  23. When the whole class talks at once the result is a cacaphony of sounds.
  24. The police officer used a megaphone so the crowd could hear him.
  25. We studied phonix when we learned to read.
  26. "self life writing" = __________
  27. "book writing" = __________
  28. "jumbled sound" = __________
  29. "together sound" = __________
  30. "self starting" = ___________
  31. friend (n) ---> ___________ (adj)
  32. amuse (v) ---> ___________ (adj)
  33.  instrument (n) ---> __________ (adj) 
  34. contempt (n) ---> ____________ (adj) 
  35. geography (n) ---> _________ (adj) 
 Part Two: (10) Vocabulary. Write the word that best fits each blank. Two words are not used. Be sure to add any prefixes or suffixes that may be needed. Be sure to spell the word correctly. If you are exempt, write "exempt," do #10 only, and move to Part Three.   aloof, elite, dumbfounded, ornery, contempt, gallant, conflict, foreshadow, stereotype, nonchalant, bleak,  savvy
1. She stood __________(ly) to one side of the room at the party.
2. The soldiers __________(ly) rode into battle to defend their homes.
3. The small children were getting a bit _________ and needed a time-out.
4. The Socs look at the greasers with hatred and __________.
5. It was probably an example of ______(ing) when S.E. Hinton made a big deal about Johnny's knife.
6. Johnny and Two-Bit were ______ when Pony went off on his brother. They thought Pony and Darry got along fine.
7. If you make the Scholar List you are a part of the educational ________.
8. When Pony assumes that all Socs are like Bob and Randy, he is thinking of people as __________(s) and not as individuals.
9. Johnny’s family life seems very __________ and hopeless.
10. Dally says Pony’s Mom "knew the score"; he means that she had___________.
 

Part Three: (10) Grammar. List the adjectives you find in the following sentence.

  1. Jimmy saw a very hairy, scary bear, was scared, and then retreated hastily from the bear's dark lair.
  2. Adjectives answer the questions a) ______, b) _______, c) _______ about d) _________(s).