Last Quiz of the First Semester, 2006
Record: Your scores on the 2 TS quizzes (/10, /9), your pink sheet score (/35), your TSSQ scores (/40, /40), and any extra credit you may have earned this week. DO NOT COPY.
Verbs.
  1. The three main types of verbs are: _______, ________, and _________.
  2. Two of the above types are sometimes combined to form a _________  ________.

    3. ID all the verbs in the following sentences as one of the three types.
  3. The guy was driving very fast on the wrong side.
  4. The hard-working plumber was late again.
  5. We will complete that project tomorrow.
Vocabulary -- You will use words more than once. You may not use them all. Do only #10 if you are "exempt." dire, prophecy, writhe, rebuke, clandestine, miscreant, ostentatious, soliloquy, repulsive, vagrant
  1. Hamlet's famous ______, which begins with "To be or not to be...", is a very beautiful speech.
  2. The police told us not to loiter in front of the 7-11; they said we were acting like ________(s).
  3. The _________ was caught with the purloined jewels in his possession and arrested.
  4. The new mansion was a bit ___________ for the older neighborhood.
  5. others : speech :: self : _________
  6. idol : pariah :: Boy Scout : _________
  7. author : foreshadowing :: fortune teller : ___________
  8. The situation was _________; the boys ran for their lives.
  9. lovely : repulsive :: congratulate : _________
  10. naive: savvy :: modest : _________
Tom Sawyer -- Write out the answers to the multiple choice questions.
  1. The word jubilant (p50b) most nearly means...a) hurting.  b) ecstatic.  c) worried.  d) regretful.
  2. (? - Choose any/all that apply.) Read the last paragraph of chapter 6. After the scene with Becky, Tom... a) misspelled a bunch of easy words.  b) cried.  c) had to give up a spelling award he had won.  d) actually tried to study. e) teased another kid.  f) stole an apple.  g) had trouble reading in class.
  3. (4) "a)He had b)contemplated a good part of the c)performance before he contributed d)his bit of variety to it." (p52b) Explain.
  4. Give a quote that shows what mistake Tom made in talking with Becky.
  5. True or False. At the end of chapter 7, Becky regrets not making up with Tom.