Test 20 -- Eighth Grade -- Record: your RFI scores for the week (/27, /28, /22, /15), your vocabulary homework score (/20), and any extra credit you may have earned this week (+7 min./+10 max.). No crossword? -10.
Spelling.

1. agreeable, fascinate, apologize, strengthen, all correct
2. falsifing, celebrate, accuracy, illustration, all correct
3. resistance, correspondence, hesitancy, hindrance, all correct
4. infancy, normalcy, excellance, importance, all correct
5. attainable, deliberately, deductible, knowledgable, all correct
6. orchestrate, popularize, finalize, humanely, all correct
7. maturity : infancy :: relentlessness : __________
8. video : audio :: ___________ : text
9. "capable of being touched" = __________
 

  • Vocabulary. defray, futile, subjugate, disgruntled, foreboding, ostentatious, pandemonium, wallow, zeal
  • 1. It is ______ to whine about things you can't change.
  • 2. (3) There was _________ when the food ran out halfway through the party. People were very ____________; they couldn't remember a worse reception. And just when they thought it couldn't get any worse, the hosts tried to take up a collection to __________ the cost of what little there was.
  • 3. '"Yankee gold,' wrote one Confederate officer, 'is fast accomplishing what Yankee arms could never achieve -- the ____(ion) of our people.'"
  • 4. A _______ former employee was responsible for the vandalism.
  • 5. Try not to ________ in self-pity. It is time to move on.
  • 6. The __ at the Mardis Gras celebration prompted a call to the police.
  • 7. His _______ for travel is evident from all the stamps on his passport.
    		•  Capitals
    1. In 1794, chief justice jay traveled to England and negotiated a treaty with the english government.
    2. In norse mythology, the god odin is ruler over the other gods, and his son is Thor.
    3. I. drama

      4.     a. elements of drama
              1. setting
    4. "I like," Luther commented, "chunky, rather than creamy, peanut butter."
    5. "Watch out!" yelled the mine inspector. "the cable has snapped!"
    RFI (p368-371)
    1. re: p369: The first _________ was established in 1861.  a) Yankee gold exchange b) income tax  c) paper currency.  d) cotton collective.
    2. re: p369: The Confederate officer who used the word subjugation was referring to... a) slavery.  b) the government.  c) money.  d) none of the above.
    3. re: p369: Which reason was not given as a cause of the economic problems of the South?  a) sabotage of crops and equipment by slaves.  b) most of the battles were fought in the South.  c) the issue of greenbacks.  d) inflation.
    4. re: p369: If a Confederate soldier in 1864 were to purchase a dozen eggs and a pound of coffee, what percentage of his monthly pay would it take?
    5. re: p371: When you look at your finger and alternately blink each eye and see the apparent shift in its position, this effect is called ___________.
    6. re: p371: Astronomers use this idea to __________.
    7. re: p371: The light we see from the sun at noon, actually left the sun at what time?
    Maus
    1. Why is Chapter One called "The Sheik"?
    2. (3) What three things does Artie say have "taken their toll" on his father?
    3. What evidence does Vladek still show from the concentration camps?
    4. On p12, the circular panel marks the beginning of Vladek's story. Where do we first interrupt that story, and come back to the present for a moment? (page and panel)
    5. In what year did Vladek meet his future wife Anja?
    6. True or False. Anja came from a very rich family.
    7. True or False. Vladek married Anja for her money.
    8. (2) What evidence do we have that Vladek is very worried about neatness?
    9. How did Anja get her tenant the seamstress in trouble?