Test 12 -- Eighth Grade, Be sure to: use a separate sheet of paper, record any extra credit you may have earned this week (+6 min/+12 max), record your score on the Jack London Quiz (/12), and record your vocabulary homework score (/20). No crossword? -10.
Spelling. Do the ones you missed Monday.
  1. This referance book gives current facts.
  2. I will transfure money to my bank from his.
  3. The abstract painting was a colorful blur.
  4. The piece of gossip was traseable back to one student who started it all.
  5. Trash disposle is a problem for this town.
  6. What is your purpose in telling me this?
  7. We share some opinions, but we differ on others.
  8. I will offer a proposel on what we should do.
  9. Heat is the oppisite of cold.
  10. Do not end a sentence with a prepasition.
  11. I will conferr with my partner on this matter before I answer your question.
  12. Listening to music will disstract you from studying.
  13. It is wise to limit your expozure to the sun.
  14. Tom Sawyer was a composit of three kids Mark Twain knew growing up.
  15. I do not want to impose on your hospitality by staying too long.
  16. My prefarence is comfort over style.
  17. The soil was fertal, and could support many crops.
  18. Snow tires provide trackshun on ice and snow.
  19. Use a protrakter to measure the angle.
  20. The detective made an inferents about the identity of the killer based on the clues.
  21. Can good posture make your back stronger?
  22. The perpetual sneer on his face showed his mean dispasition.
  23. Even food doesn't decumpose in a modern landfill.
  24. Your research paper will need a bibleography.
  25. One of your sources might be the encyclapedia.
 Roots. Do not copy.
1. "before put thing"   2. "together put thing"  3. "apart pull"  4. "over on put"  5. "across carry" 6. "with carry" 7. "book writing"

Vocabulary. Skip if "exempt." You will use words more than once, you will not use them all.   flounder, enumerate, surmount, flotsam, pall, contrive, yaw, superimpose, juxtapose, conflagration

  1. fire : conflagration :: debris : ________ 
  2. (3) If you don't keep up with the homework, you will ______ in that class, and get behind a pile of work that you will never _____, so you should ask your teacher to kindly ______ all the assignments you have already missed. 
  3. "Necessity is the mother of invention" means that often, when you need something, you will ________ a way to get it.
  4. For the photo, we ________(ed) the horse and the cowboy with the sunset in the background.
  5. The mad scientist fiddled with his latest _______(ance). 
  6. invent : contrive :: conquer : ___________ 
  7. After the death of two students in an accident, there was a _______ of sadness over the school.
  8. Can you _________ at least three of the four methods that authors use to develop a character? 
's  There might be more than one  in a sentence; there might not be any words that need one. There will be at least one you have to add an s to also. If the sentence is correct, write "correct." For #6, do what it says.
  1. All three of the neighbors dogs cries were mournful, but ours didn't join in the howling. (1 neighbor, 3 dogs.)
  2. Little girls clothing is on the 1st floor, and the mens department is on the second.
  3. For the notebook check, well be looking for this weeks work, plus the previous two weeks work.
  4. James hat and Joes gloves were on the table.
  5. John has a 67 Mustang that is his proudest possession.
  6. Spell the word that this symbol is called ' .
"The King of Mazy May." Jack London.
  1. When a plot of land staked out by a gold miner is stolen, we call this...
  2. What current US state is closest to the Klondike region?
  3. (2) Why is it taking old Loren Hall so long to register his plot of land?
  4. Why does Walt not have to worry about his father's land being stolen?
  5. On page 61, what do the words richness and discoveries refer to?