Test #15 -- Eighth Grade -- Record your COW response score (/20), your extra credit for the week (+5min, +10max), your COW quiz score (/25), and your vocabulary homework score (/20).
Spelling/Roots.
  1. vertebrae, inverse, revert, invert, all correct
  2. vice versa, adversary, introvert, versatile, all correct
  3. aspire, anniversary, versus, vertical, all correct
  4. conspiracy, diversion, universal, exspires, all correct
  5. reverse, perspiration, extrovert, diverse, all correct
  6. vertebra, advertisement, transpired, respiration, all correct
  7. controversy, convert, diversion, divert, all correct
  8. * ally : adversary :: agreement : _________
  9.  * "outward turning" = ___________
  10. * "year turn thing" = __________
  11. * "one turning" = __________
  12. * "again turn" = _________
  13. * "again breathe thing" = ____________
 Vocabulary. Skip if you are exempt.
imperative, ignominious, appease, disconsolate, indiscretion, cadence, wheedle, inexorable, insidious, paradox
  1. "There was an __________ need to be constantly alert; for these dogs and men were not town dogs and men. They were savages, all of them; who knew no law but the law of club and fang."
  2. As he approached the ground with a malfunctioning parachute, his death seemed __________.
  3. The candidate called the incident where he was arrested for vandalism when he was 16, a  "youthful ____________."
  4. "Of this offense Buck was unwittingly guilty, and the first knowledge he had of his ___________ was when  Sol-leks whirled upon him and slashed his shoulder to the bone for three inches up and down."
  5. After I made my friend angry, I tried to __________ her by being extra nice, and buying her chocolate.
  6. They "bombarded him with curses and cooking utensils, till he recovered from his consternation and fled __________(ly) into the cold."
  7. "He lay down on the snow and attempted to sleep, but the frost soon drove him shivering to his feet. Miserable and _____________, he wandered about among the many tents, only to find that one place was as cold as another."
  8. Ancient people tried to ______ their angry gods with sacrifices.
  9. Time is ____________.
  10. "That'd be a ________. Time doesn't permit that sort of mess -- a man meeting himself."
COW
  1. True or False. Buck was always on the lookout for an opportunity to attack Spitz.
  2. What did Spitz do that finally drove Buck to attack him?
  3. True or False. Francois encouraged Buck in his first fight with Spitz.
  4. How many huskies invaded the camp at that moment?  a) 20 or 30.  b) 15 or 20.  c) close to 100.  d) 50.
  5. (Quote) What made them so fierce and inexorable?
  6. Name one thing besides the food that the huskies ate.
  7. True or False. Only Buck escaped unhurt by the invasion.
  8. Why does Perrault carry a long pole?
  9. What does Francois make for Buck?
  10. What happened to Dolly? (Be specific.)
  11. Why were the other dogs no longer afraid of Spitz? (Be specific.)
  12. How did Francois feel about Buck's "cold war" with Spitz for leadership? a) He felt that if Buck could take Spitz on, he should.  b) That Buck lack of respect for Spitz was ruining the team.  c) That Spitz deserved what he got.  d) He hoped they would fight and get it over with.
  13. (2) The only dogs unaffected by Buck's and Spitz's feuding were __________ and ____________.
  14. Explain what the line on p_______ that begins, "At the sound of this, the cry of Life..." means.
  15. What does Buck finally do in order to defeat Spitz?