Test #10 -- Eighth Grade. Record: Your Pigman response score for the week (/20), your vocabulary homework score (/20), your Pigman quiz scores (/5, /11), and your extra credit for the week (+10 minimum, +15 maximum). No crossword? -10. No interview yesterday? -10.
(20) Spelling --All take all. Fix the wrong one or write "all correct."

1. genre, amature, grafted, boulevard, all correct
2. antique, hor d'ouvres, elite, Wednesday, all correct
3. rendezvous, opaque, banana, intrigue, all correct
4. chauffuer, camouflage, mustache, souvenir, all correct
5. foyer, memoire, saute, etiquette, all correct
6. suit, suite, brochure, aficionado, all correct
7. gormet, buffet, fillet, Lorraine, all correct
8. omelette, preposition, adjective, demented, all correct
9. connoisseur, oscillate, pewtrid, hawk, all correct
10. liaison, graft, fixation, succint, all correct

(10) Vocabulary. Skip if you are exempt, writing "exempt." The last nine words above are the vocabulary words to choose from. You will use words more than once; you might not use them all.

1. The pendulum's _____________(ion) was very hypnotic.
2. Sigmund Freud said that we all start life with an oral ___________. That's why babies suck their thumbs.
3. Many web sites have pop-up ads that __________ useless merchandise and services.
4. The police think the killer is ___________, and not acting logically.
5. The student body president acted as a ______ between the students and the administration.
6. The smell from the water treatment plant was ____________.
7. The fan ___________(ed) back and forth.
8. His speech at the meeting was ____________, so we got out of there on time.
9. Eloquence is not always ____________.
10. Mr. Pignati is more of an aficionado than a ______________.

(16) Grammar.

1. (12) Copy and label. Yesterday, at the big race, Jimmy blindly ran into an oblivious pedestrian.
2. Fix the sentence in the Vocabulary directions that is grammatically incorrect.
3. (3) Identify the prepositional phrases in each of the following sentences.
• a) The gardener grafted a new limb onto the ailing tree.
• b) Lorraine went with them to the department store because she felt she had to watch John.

(9) The Pigman

1. How does Lorraine's mom thank her for the stockings?
2. What foreshadowing does Lorraine give about the end of the chapter?
3. Lorraine was sorry she had told John they had to tell Mr. Pignati the truth because she knew...?
4. How does Lorraine get a laugh out of Mr. Pignati after that?
5. (5) Which character?  a) Wanted to know if Mr. Pignate had anything worth stealing. b) Encouraged John's drinking. c) Thought the Pigman's psychology game was "actually pretty accurate."  d) Wouldn't eat, thus making Mr. Pignati sad.  e) Couldn't handle chocolate-covered ants.