Test #15 -- Seventh Grade -- Record your KBAR score (/40), your extra credit for the week (+4min, +10max), and your vocabulary homework score (/20).
Spelling. All take all. Do not copy.
  1. adapt, inspire, harmuny, divine, all correct
  2. harmonious, combine, dispose, Mars, all correct
  3. adaption, narrate, narration, genes, all correct
  4. dispostion, excel, genetic, excellence, all correct
  5. triumphent, various, academic, admiration, all correct
  6. combine, combonation, variety, impose, all correct
  7. imposition, insparation, academy, inspire, all correct
  8. * lose : triumph :: cacophony : ___________ 
  9. * divide : combine :: environmental : _________ 
  10. * narrate : story :: _________ : debris 
Vocabulary. If you are "exempt," do only #10-#12. divine, discerning, stark, prevail, demur, lurid, revoke, restitution, impertinent, brood
  1. When dad asked me to mow the lawn, I _________(ed), but he told me that was not an option.
  2. There was a __________ contrast between Langston Hughes' life and that of his teacher.
  3. The kings of old used to think that they had a ___________ right to do whatever they wanted, that God had personally chosen them to be kings.
  4. The contract he signed turned out to be ______(able) at any time if his performance lagged.
  5. Everyone was shocked by the ____ details of the murder.
  6. lose : prevail :: demur : _________
  7. "What if?" he ________(ed) to himself after the accident.
  8. (2) My dad ________(ed) my TV privileges, and forced me to make ________ after I broke the neighbors' window.
  9. "Don't cry over spilled milk" is an old expression that means not to ______ too much over mistakes that you can't change. 
  10. Emily Dickinson felt that "the Majority" always _______(s). What you are is what the majority of people think you are.
  11. She felt that if a person were very __________, he/she would see that many things that appear to be weird, are really quite sane.
  12. On the other hand, things that we think are normal, are _________(ly) mad.
 "TOF" Write out the answer. Open book.
  1. The expression "the shoe is on the other foot now" means...a) Your shoes are on the wrong feet. b) "Treat others the way you would like to be treated." c) "The tables have turned." d) You walk funny.
  2. Willie thinks the people who are excited about seeing the white man are... a) forgetful. b) heroic. c) fools. d) silly. e) a and c.
  3. When Willie says he'll let the white people live up there, he is being...a) generous. b) forgiving. c) ironic. d) none of the above.
  4. Willie wanted the paint and stencils to...a) "brand" the incoming white man. b) paint signs that said "Go Home." c) paint a message of hate on the rocket. d) paint the same sort of signs he grew up seeing and hating.
  5. On page 36, when Hattie thinks about "tearing down walls,"  what do the walls represent? a) The people's hatred. b) The society that the black Martians have created for themselves. c) The facade they use to hide their real selves. d) All of the above. e) None of the above.
  6. The white man is there to...a) Say "We're sorry." b) Ask for help. c) Help steal Mars from the blacks. d) Get away from earth.
  7. How does the white man know whether a certain person is alive or dead, or whether a particular building is still standing or not? a) Everything was destroyed, so he knows that they're all gone. b) He has a computer inside his ship which can look it up. c) He's been there. d) He's in radio contact with Earth.
  8. What does that tree represent?  a) Willie's home back on Earth. b) The destruction of the Earth by the white man. c) All the injustices that the white man inflicted on the black man. d) The death of Willie's father. e) All of the above.
  9. How does this story illustrate the idea of "turning the other cheek"? a) The blacks let themselves be treated badly. b) Willie and the others didn't try to get revenge. c) The white man was paid back for all the bad things he had done. d) The blacks finally had justice for the treatment at the hands of the white man. e) c and d.
  10. Willie and the others decided to "turn the other cheek" because...a) There was nothing left to hate. b) They realized that the white man was lonely just like them. c) They realized that the white man had turned his hatred on himself. d) The white man had already been punished enough. e) All of the above.
  11. What is the first thing Willie paints a sign on/in? a) Train car. b) Restaurant. c) Bathroom. d) Trolley car. e) Theater.
  12. How old was Willie when he left Earth? a) 12. b) 13. c) 16. d) 20. e) Just a baby.
  13. The story takes place in... a) 1965. b) 1985. c) 1952. d) 2004.