Test #1. Use
a separate sheet of paper for your answers. No crossword? -10. Record extra
credit (+4min/+10max).
Vocabulary.Write exempt if you are and can
prove it, and then move to #11
infer, bleak, nonchalant, gingerly, rueful, savvy, fathom, conform,
sage, denotation, connotation
1. "Okay," I said ________(ly), "might as well." (Pony was trying
to act cool with the girls.)
2. I handled the delicate vase very ____________.
3. Even though he may not be "book-smart" he has a lot of _______
about the world.
4. Some people might have called him weird, but he preferred to
be called a (non-)__________(ist).
5. The landscape of the moon is lifeless and very_____.
6. The old man was considered the ________ of the village because
of all his experience and wisdom.
7. "I shouldn’t have done that," he said with a _______ sigh.
8. "It's just because you're the baby--I mean he loves you a lot.
(Do you) _________?"
9. For Pony, the _______ of the word 'dropout' was the image of
somebody like Dally, rather than Sodapop.
10. dig : understand :: fathom : __________
For 11-17, choose from: Darry, Pony, Johnny, Steve, Dally, Two-Bit,
Soda
11. Thinks Pony is a tag-along and a kid...
12. Cold, hard and unfeeling (according to our narrator)...
13. Got out of the "cooler" early for "good behavior"
14.Scared of his own shadow...
15. The "loner" of the group...
16. Always has to have the last word...
17. "understands everbody"
18. True or False. Pony says that the greasers sometimes deserve
the treatment they get from other people.
19. Which quote is the reason pony gives for the behavior of
Soda and Steve? (The fights, drag races, etc.)
a) "...it's fun..." b) most girls "looked at us like we were dirt..."
c) the Socs "got all the breaks..." d) "...too much feeling with no way
to blow it off..." e) "...no specific thing to hate..."
20. "They are right. You are a hood." Who's talking? a) The girl
at the drive-in. b) The girl in Pony's biology class. c) Steve d) Two-Bit's
mom e) The Socs who jumped Pony f) Dally's ex-girlfriend
21. We beat a hasty retreat from his lair. Which word
is the only adjective? (Besides "a.")
22. Which of the questions below is NOT one that an adjective would
answer. a) Which one? b) What kind? c) How many? d) Where? e) All are questions
an adjective would answer. f) None are questions an adjective would answer.
23.(slang) cooler : jail :: heater : _______
24. (slang) icebox : fridge :: broad : _______
25. Dally : the world :: Johnny : _______ a) Socs b) Dally c) his
parents d) the world e) Steve f) Darry
26. Spelling! Which one's wrong? useage, creative, continuous,
insurance, all correct
27. pleasure, maturity, television, survivle, narrative, all correct
28. confusion, storage, narrative, beleivable, all correct
29. ridiculous, ignorance, refusal, literature, all correct
30. security, valuble, completion, revision, sincerely, all correct
31. The root tele means...
32. The root cred (like in incredible) means...
33. locker : storage :: _________ : security
34. rewrite : revision :: story : ___________
35. refusal : cooperation :: childishness : _________