Quiz 5/26/06 -- Please record: your pink sheet score (/42), and any extra credit you may have earned this week (+4min/+10max).
I. Subjects and Verbs -- ID the subject and insert the appropriate verb for each sentence. (2p each)
  1. ________ this restaurant's fish sandwiches taste fishy?
  2. The list of names of winners _______ being read now.
  3. The students in the honors class _________ doing a new project.
  4. Only half the club members ________ present.
  5. Sixty cents ______ the price for the cookie.
II. Vocabulary  -- Skip if "exempt." ambiguous, genial, insatiable, repress, paraphernalia, profuse, perfunctory, vivid, encompass, boisterous
  1. Yertle the Turtle claimed that his kingdom __________(ed) everything he could see from the top of the stack of turtles.
  2. First period thanked Mr. Coward ___________(ly) when he had mercy on them, and didn't make them all write sentences 100 times.
  3. The guy working the roller coaster gave the same safety speech 100's of times a day, and so it got rather ____________, and he would recite it without thinking.
  4. friendly : genial :: rowdy : _________
  5. minuscule : profuse :: drab : _________
  6. "Perhaps," is a(n) ___________ answer.
  7. Sam's curiosity is ______________; he just has to know everybody else's business.
  8. fun : boring :: emotional : ________(ed)
  9. The science lab required a lot of ________________ , as well as an hour for set-up time.
  10. Santa Claus is most often portrayed as a ____________, jolly, fat man.
III. "...Peanuts"(1, 2) and "The Lottery" (3-10) -- #11 is extra credit. If you haven't finished "The Lottery," do that first.
  1. Throughout the day, Mr. Johnson seemed intent on... a) finding fault with everything.  b) putting people into uncomfortable situations.  c) gaining people's confidence so that he could take advantage of them.  d) surprising people with acts of kindness.  e) none of the above.
  2. The ending of "...Peanuts" is an excellent example of a literary concept we talked a lot about during The Outsiders. What is that? a) foreshadowing.  b) flashback.  c) conflict.  d) irony.  e) metaphor.  f) facade.
  3. Mrs. Jackson actually foreshadows the ending very early in the story. What is our first clue?
  4. How do they decide in what order to draw for the lottery?
  5. There are actually two rounds to the lottery. Explain.
  6. What is on the slip of paper Tessie Hutchinson draws that signifies she is the "winner"?
  7. (Quote) In the last paragraph, there is an especially horrifying line that shows just how deeply the lottery has warped this village. Quote it.
  8. How could the villagers argue that Tessie was wrong when she says at the end, "It isn't fair"? (Could be a quote, but it doesn't have to be.)
  9. What ancient cultural practice is similar to the lottery?
  10. Compare this story with "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street." What message do they have in common?
  11. (Bonus for extra credit +2) Old Man Warner actually says something that shows the original purpose of the lottery. Quote him.