Test #16 -- Eighth Grade. Record your:  vocabulary homework score (/20),  COW response score (/20),  COW reading check scores (/9, /5),  score on the SVA quiz (/10),  extra credit for the week (+7min/+12 max). No Crossword? -10.
Spelling (15). All take all. Do not copy.
  1. (2) historian, politician, comedian, pianist, all correct
  2. (2) librarian, novelist, pharmacist, custodian, all correct
  3. (2) criticism, idealism, guitarist, skepticism, all correct
  4. (2) realism, civilian, conformist, mannerism, all correct
  5. (2) perfectionist, pedestrian, guardian, individualist, all correct
  6. (2) vetrinarian, equestrian, optimism, pessimist, all correct
  7. Doubting Thomas : skeptic :: idiosyncrasy : _________ 
  8. "foot traveler" = __________ 
  9. optimism : pessimism :: conformist : _______
SVA (10).
  1. Annie and her brothers (is, are) at school.
  2. The players, as well as the captain, (want, wants) to win.
  3. Either answer (is, are) acceptable.
  4. Eight dollars (is, are) the price of a movie these days.
  5. All of the CDs, even the scratched one, (is, are) in this case.
  6. (2) There (was, were) fifteen candies in that bag. Now there (is, are) only one left!
  7. The man with all the birds (live, lives) on my street.
  8. (2) Mathematics (is, are) John's favorite subject, while social studies (is, are) Andrea's favorite subject.
 Vocabulary (10). Skip if "exempt." You will use one word twice. pell-mell, slake, usurp, wanton, ambuscade, belie, cessation, multitudinous, certitude
  1. The Vikings of old were famous for the ____________ destruction they left in their wake.
  2. "Buck hurried on, swiftly and stealthily, every nerve straining and tense, alert to the ____ details which together told a story -- all but the end."
  3. Buck was "never at loss for the tangled way, heading straight home through strange country with a ___________ of direction that put man and his magnetic needle to shame."
  4. "Nor did he give the wounded bull opportunity to _________ his burning thirst in the slender trickling streams they crossed."
  5. "Then they became friendly, and played about in the nervous, half-coy way with which fierce beasts ____________ their fierceness."
  6. naive : skeptical :: organized : __________
  7. "Death, as a __________ of movement, as a passing out and away from the lives of the living, he knew..."
  8. "...when he climbed cautiously in at the window he uncovered a(n) ______, in the person of his aunt..."
  9. "For the last time in his life he allowed passion to __________ cunning and reason, and it was because of his great love for John Thornton that he lost his head."
  10. "There is a patience of the wild -- dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself -- that holds motionless for endless hours: the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its __________..."
COW (10).
  1. What does #10 in the vocabulary section refer to?
  2. What does #9 in the vocabulary section refer to?
  3. What did Buck realize after he had attacked the Yeehats? a) That John Thornton wasn't strong enough to survive.  b) That man was no match for Buck.  c) That man is evil.  d) That John Thornton was the only good man Buck knew.
  4. Find a quote on p754 that shows Buck somehow sensed that the Yeehats were about, and foreshadows their appearance later.
  5. The part of the story that begins..."And here may well end the story of Buck" (p757) is called the... a) exposition.  b) conflict.  c) rising action.  d) climax.  e) resolution.
  6. The part of the story where Thornton is killed, and Buck follows the Call is called... a) exposition.  b) conflict.  c) rising action.  d) climax.  e) resolution.
  7. (4) The main external conflict of COW is...   The main internal conflict of COW is...