Test 21 -- Eighth Grade -- Record: your RFI scores for the week (homework: /15, /20, /16, /10. Quizzes: /10, /11), your vocabulary homework score ( /20), and any extra credit you may have earned this week (+6 min. / + 12 Mx).  No crossword? -10.
Spelling.
  1. mountainous, gradual, agile, cautious, all correct.
  2. stenuous, crucial, mobile, horizontal, all correct.
  3. disasterous, tremendous, artificial, fragile, all correct.
  4. precious, occaisional, juvenile, ridiculous, all correct.
  5. impartial, social, hysterical, contagious, all correct.
  6. continuous, various, hostle, simultaneous, all correct.
  7. famous : Walt Disney :: _________ : Al Capone
  8. _________ : Nutrasweet TM :: natural : honey
  9. durable : concrete :: ________ : light bulb
Vocabulary. iconic, daunting, anthropomorphic, aspire, saw, pogrom, pragmatic, skinflint, ambiguous, volatile
  1. "Goofy is an ________________ do, while "Pluto" is not.
  2.  Doing your homework, before playing video games, is a __________ strategy for success.
  3.  If you are tight-fisted with your money, people might call you a __________.
  4.  It is ironic and __________ to call a missile "The Peace Keeper".
  5.  George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are _______ figures in American history.
  6.  Howard Dean's caffeine-induced "howl" showcased his _________ nature.
  7.  Eating fifty hard-boiled eggs in one sitting is a very _________ task.
  8. "A bird in the hand" is an old ________ which Mr. Coward likes.
  9.  Some people consider the internment of Japanese Americans, during W.W.II as our own ________.
  10. You may _________ to someday be as cool as Mr. Coward.
 Pronoun A-Go-Go
  1. (Us, We)  volunteers were happy to see the park looking good again.
  2. Are (us, we)  students invited to see the concert?
  3. Just as (us, we)  campers got our tents up, it started to rain.
  4. The pool is open to (us, we)  swimmers after 10:00.
  5. The driver announced each bus stop to (us, we)  passengers.
  6. The search for radioactive elements fascinated Marie and (he, him).
  7. In 1903, Marie and (he, him) won the Nobel Prize in physics.
  8. The teacher called on Stan and (her, she).
  9. Between you and (I, me), I don't really understand how to answer this question.
  10. Rosita borrowed the CD from my brother and (me, I).
RFI (394-399)
  1. On page 394, Maldonado Bay is in which country?  a) Mexico.  b) Spain.  c) Uruguay. d) El Salvador 
  2. On page 394, what is the name of the ship which sunk in Maldonado Bay? _____________. 
  3. On page 395, why is it easy for the divers to see the sunken cannons?  a) the cannons were big.  b) they were made of bronze. c) Mussels don't cling to bronze.  d) all of the above.
  4. On page 396, did the divers find lots of golden treasure in the wreck of the sunken ship? (Yes or No)
  5. On page 396, who gets to keep the salvaged items?  a) the divers.  b) Hector Bado.  c) the government of Uruguay.  d) the salvage company.  e) c and d will share the items equally. 
Maus: Chapters Two and Three 
  1. True or False.  Anja's father is a stingy skinflint: he does not want to help Vladek and Anja.
  2. Where do Anja and Vladek go, when Anja is suffering from post-partum depression?  a) Disneyland.  b) a sanitarium in Czechoslovakia.  c) the World's Fair in New York.  d) Sosnowiec.
  3. How can we easily tell that Richieu's governess, (nanny), is a non-Jewish Pole?_________________________.
  4. As an old man, what is unusual about Vladek's left eye? ___________________________. (Hint: this is his "perfect" eye).
  5. Why doesn't Vladek tell the young doctor about his left eye?  a) he doesn't want to embarrass the doctor.  b) he is afraid the doctor will not want to fix his right eye.  c) he figures the doctor should know what he is doing.  d) he wants to make fun of the doctor.
  6. Why does Vladek have to leave Anja and Richieu?  a) he was in the Polish Reserves Army.  b) he received a draft notice to report for duty.  c) Germany is getting ready to invade Poland.  d) all of these.
  7. Why doesn't Vladek's father want Vladek to join the army?  a) he did not want any of his sons to join the army.  b) he had pulled out 14 of his own teeth in order to avoid the army.  c) When Vladek's father was young, Polish people were drafted into the Russian Army, where they had to serve for twenty-five years, in Siberia.  d) all of the above.